Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, by Joseph Plaster (2023). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures, by Luis Felipe R. Murillo (2025). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

In this new series, scholars respond to SAW editors’ call to reflect on innovative methods that are being devised by anthropologists of work to navigate the

Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City, by Rebecca Berke Galemba (2023). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

In this new series, scholars respond to SAW editors' call to reflect on innovative methods that are being devised by anthropologists of work to navigate the

Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, by Tracie Canada (2025). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office, by Ilana Gershon (2024). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker (2024). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism, by Jathan Sadowski (2025). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh (2023)

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