Code for America tech workers are in contract negotiations and they are asking for support. Management is cutting their benefits instead of improving work conditions. You can email Code for America leadership and encourage them to negotiate a fair contract: actionnetwork.org/letters/fair...

Check out this book review in Exertions (SAW’s short-form web publication): Radhika Moral's review of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh. If you would like to review a book, please reach out to our editors.

#OpenAccess! MIGRATION AS ANCHORAGE: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London by Michelle Obeid has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/3KaYESJ #MigrationStudies #Anthropology #ConflictStudies

The next most-read article from 2025 is "'But we met expectations! Why us?': Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro" by Susan Andreatta and Keri Vacanti Brondo. #OpenAccess #Anthropology doi.org/10.1111/aman...

❄️24 hrs left in our Christmas sale!❄️ 50% off all books! plutobooks.com

Check out @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Anthropology of Work Review's most read article of 2025: “Activism Was a Survival Strategy”: Chronic Illness & the Power of Endometriosis Activism as Work @anikakoenig.bsky.social & Caroline Meier zu Biesen anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Darcy Tetreault’s “Mining and eco-territorial struggles in Mexico”-- now in the Anthropology of Free Trade Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

The editorial collective of @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social and the #Anthropology_of_Labour network invite contributions exploring how different polarisations in the world today are both reconfiguring work and giving rise to new forms of resistance and solidarity #EASA2026 @easainfo.bsky.social

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In this article from Current Anthropology, Indian diasporic activists' work in "cryptowork," a form of cybersecurity, is investigated to highlight its affective, technical, and political role in current diasporic activist practice on social media. https://ow.ly/YVmJ50XyKSP @wennergrenorg.bsky.social

In The Criminal Record Complex, Melissa Burch reveals how a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiring. Now available (6 Jan UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Anthropology #History

If you would like to review a book for Exertions, SAW’s web-based publication, here is the list of titles available for review. Contact editors Sam Weeks ([email protected]) and Thea Mercer ([email protected]).

If you work on anthropology of labour/organising take a look our #EASA2026 panel P159 co-organised with Anthropology of Labour Network easaonline.org/easa-confere...

Caitrin Lynch and I try very gently to talk about why automation needs to be thought about very carefully before adopting it as a solution for any social dilemma: cacm.acm.org/opinion/an-a...

How can we study automation as anthropologists? Where do we start? What would a CS/anthropology collaboration look like? Our professor, Ilana Gershon, wrote a piece about it: "An Anthropologist’s Guide to Better Automation", co-authored by Caitrin Lynch, has now been published.

🚨NEW INQUIRY! Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

Lots of amazing looking panels on themes of work and labour...

📣The call for papers and labs for EASA2026 Poznań is now open. Submit your abstracts until 26 January 2026! More info in the comments. #easa2026 #anthropology #conference #ApplyNow #anthropologist

If you're into #urban_anthropology, please consider contributing an abstract to our #EASA2026 panel 009 "Beyond polarised urban spaces: epistemologies, imaginaries and practices at stake." The CfP call closes on 26 Jan 2026, be quick and see you in Poznan - or maybe online!

'Women work longer and earn just a third – 32% – of what men get per hour, when paid and unpaid labour, such as domestic work, are taken into account. Even when unpaid domestic labour is not included, women only earn 61% of what men make, according to the report.' 1/2

"AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records" www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-s...

"I didn’t go to college 'in order to' get a job. I went to explore, to be challenged, to figure out what mattered."

“We just want what is ours. We don’t want to beg.” Long excluded from labour protections and benefits owing to their caste & gender, female workers in India’s multimillion-dollar tobacco industry are demanding their rights. They talk to Madhuri Kamtam in our most recent magazine. buff.ly/rEZ9QY4

Spending on consultants. There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.

Well deserved. Everyone, and I mean everyone, needs to read Brian’s book. The issue of the unhoused is one of the most pressing issues of our time and these stories, so often , lived in the darkness. This is a big step in bringing these lived realities into the light. Congratulations!

New article alert! Check out "Tasting Red, Hearing Silk: Synesthesia, Sensory Labor, and the Social Aesthetics of Chefs" by Kelly Alexander. #Anthropology doi.org/10.1111/aman...

Unjust transition is under way "Western carmakers and battery giants... have become willing participants in this model, often turning a blind eye to the labor and environmental shortcuts that make their net-zero targets affordable."

“The wish that women’s work be waged seems to have come true albeit in funhouse-mirror form: legions of women now work in low-paid roles caring for other peoples’ families, while the vast majority still take care of their own families for free” www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

"1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter expressing “serious concerns” abt AI development, saying that the company’s “all-costs justified, warp speed” approach to the powerful technology will cause damage to "democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wonderful, urgent essay by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @bostonreview.bsky.social on the recognition and politicisation of care work in the long shadow of Wages for Housework. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Our cover features a sculptural work, ’25 Days,’ by Indo-South African artist Zenaéca Singh. The sculpture, made from sugar, activates the archive of indentured Indo-South African labour and migration and encapsulates the theme of this special issue.

The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social includes my photo essay "Roads, Marketplaces and Plantations" in #PapuaNewGuinea. I discuss how the unequal relations and struggle between plantation companies, workers and peasants are materialized in enacted through food and #infrastructure. #anthropology

A short piece I did for the Sonic Anthropology Radio podcast with Thomas Miller with some great clips from NOLA radio! sonic-anthropology.mixlr.com/recordings/2...

Tuomas Tammisto's monograph 'Hard Work' (2024) combines a #PoliticalEcology focus on the connection between #environmental issues and power relations with a focus on how value is produced, represented, and materialized. Read or download the book for free at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...

An important discussion, organized by #APLA and #ASAP, will be held tomorrow, Nov 22, 6:30-9pm at Ashé Cultural Arts center! #AAA2025 #Anthropology

New from Practicing Anthropology: The Cost of Precarity in U.S. Higher Education by Emma Abell-Selby doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2025.2581785 @practicinganthro1.bsky.social #SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology #PracticingAnthropology

Interview with Annie McClanahan on service work and the impending strike in Las Vegas. truthout.org/articles/imp...

Neo-liberalism is build on myths. One such myth is that their laissez-faire and "free market" policies will reduce bureaucracy.

New paper alert! 📢 "Enterprising Citizens: Digital Self-Help Gurus in Post-Liberalization India" by Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey. A look at how SHGs reshape aspirations, normalize failure, and push entrepreneurial citizenship in #India. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Souleymane's Story, available on some streaming platforms, is a great film revealing the reality of the food delivery industry in Europe, where black market exploitation of undocumented migrants is rampant. eomail5.com/web-version?...

Join us in congratulating Ideas on Fire author Beth Robinson on the publication of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social! dukeupress.edu/sweatshop-ca... #IoFAuthors

Friends attending #AAA2025 - some health stuff is keeping me from all the spooky fun in NOLA but I have to boost this Thursday sesh on “The Specter of Fascism” co-organized with the best comrades. GET THERE! There will be brilliant people, urgent scheming, ZINES. #anthrosky 👻📚✊✨

We hope you can join us for this important event on Sat Nov 22 eve in New Orleans, LA. #ASAP #APLA #AAA2025

Don’t forget Starbucks workers are on strike and there are plenty of other places to fuel your #AAA2025! ☕️

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Five Books on Labor and Ecology www.publicbooks.org/five-books-o...

Coming up this Saturday! Our annual Culture@Large event—now with New Orleans walking tour! Join historian Rashauna Johnson for an event you won't want to miss this AAA. (Talk open to all, tour requires registration)

Calling all Early Career Researchers heading to the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting! 👋Join us Friday, Nov 21 (4:15-5:45 PM) for our workshop 📖 From Submission to Publication: Advice for ECRs from AAA Editors 📍 Grand Couteau, 5th floor See you there!