Summits of green-topped mountains peek over the walls of Ellie's store. It cannot rain, so
ceilings are not needed. Ellie leads me room to room, showing me her merchandise: case …

This introduction proposes an anthropology of global cargo circulation by placing the
maritime shipping industry at the center of global capitalism. With “container economies” we …

Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of
life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry. It traces …

This book explores the broad territory of design anthropology, covering key approaches,
ways of working and areas of debate and tension. It understands design as fundamentally …

Both in public imagination and scholarship, begging is often associated with passivity,
waiting, inactivity and as such defined as the opposite of 'real work'. During two years of …

Waste studies brings to labor history a suite of conceptual tools to think about precarious
labor, human capital, migration, the material quality of labor in urban and rural …

ABSTRACT Young people in Puerto Princesa, the Philippines, are drawn to working as
salespeople for AIM Global, a purveyor of the nutritional supplement C24/7. The company …

This collection of papers traces the 'labours of hope'which are both enabling and
challenging the reproduction of capitalist relations in the contemporary moment. It brings …

In 2018, social anthropology finds itself increasingly concerned with its technical, legal and
political conditions of possibility. The long‐term effects of austerity, financialisation and the …

Earlier analyses have demonstrated the loss of industrial worker autonomy and the rise of
deskilling after production is automated. But what happens to autonomy and skill in times of …