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And my research of slavery continues. Mintz’s endorsement made it a no-brainer for me to pull a trigger on this book, which was originally published in 1932 by University of Chicago Press, but it was largely overlooked! This is a full 2010 reprint of it.

#booksky #anthropology
The cover of „The Plantation” by Edgar Tristram Thimpson showing a group of black slaves with two wooden huts in the background. First page of the first chapter of „The Plantation” by Edgar Tristram Thompson explaining that „the plantation is to be regarded as a political institution.”
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ilrreview.bsky.social
🚨New article published:
How do #techworkers organize? JS Tan @mitiwer.bsky.social, Natalia Luka @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and Emily Mazo @columbiauniversity.bsky.social show how periods of workplace activism precede heightened labor activism for tech workers.
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amanthro.bsky.social
Congratulations to Ieva Jusionyte on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their 2018 article "Called to 'Ankle Alley': Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US–Mexico Border" #Anthropology #MacFellow

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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerou....
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calebw.bsky.social
James Boggs, auto worker and political visionary, stating demands fit for the age of AI already in 1963: "Society must recognize that the magnificent productive tools of our day are the result of the accumulated labors of all of us and not the exclusive property of any group or class."
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pembrokecenter.bsky.social
Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
2026-27 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center. Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 24 2025. Complete applications must include curriculum vitae, cover letter, writing sample.
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lseinequalities.bsky.social
In a new study, Christopher Hoy (World Bank) reveals that people tend to dramatically underestimate wage inequality.

What’s more, when confronted with the actual data, far right voters alter their views about redistribution the most.

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

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The wage gap and far-right support for redistribution
New study on beliefs and preferences about the wage gap (CEOs vs average worker). When the true gap is revealed, far right voters change their policy views most.
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ssrc.org
In @amanthro.bsky.social, Kristina Nielsen’s investigation of India’s business process outsourcing industry considers the impacts of workers forced to remove their regional accents to meet industry standards.
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sapiens.org
From the archive. Anthropologist David Graeber’s celebrated theory of “bullshit jobs” continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd. Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/davi...
Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs
Anthropologist David Graeber’s theory of BS jobs provides a critical window into why modern work is so often so soul-sucking.
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jayulfelder.bsky.social
"Organizers say that the crackdown has created a climate of fear and intimidation that is not only directly harming workers and their families, but is also stifling ongoing worker efforts to improve conditions on the job, and organize to protect themselves from raids."
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
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fasosmaastricht.bsky.social
🌏💼 What does “retirement” mean when return, care, and labour continue across borders? In her new chapter in Anthropology of Retirement, @meghaamrith.bsky.social examines the futures imagined by ageing migrant domestic workers in Singapore & Hong Kong. Read more here: tinyurl.com/bde79pae
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piotrgoldstein.bsky.social
The next time you visit @zois.bsky.social, please take a look at the new #multimodal #exhibition "Visualising Transborder Lifeworlds" that we created with Iepke Rijcken & Maks Awuah as part of @visionproject.bsky.social. Drop me a line if you would like to join us for a midissage in mid-October.🧵
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oii.ox.ac.uk
New blog! @oii.ox.ac.uk doctoral researcher Lily Rodel explores what lockdown revealed about how we could all achieve the perfect work-life balance. More here: bit.ly/3KNFVwQ 1/2
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📣 New article ‘Visualizing Transborder Lifeworlds in the Polish-German Border Region’ by Iepke M. Rijcken, @piotrgoldstein.bsky.social (DeZIM) & Maksymilian Awuah creates new perspectives on the lives of #transborder workers by using audio-visual tools.
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aryawa.bsky.social
In the time of twin transitions, a significant reminder to labour studies and labour anthropologist, "The trouble was I had my back to future – and this is the sixth ethnographic fallacy – studying the present as a point of arrival rather than a point of departure"
Ethnographic fallacies: reflections on labour studies in the era of market fundamentalism - Michael Burawoy, 2013
Michael Burawoy reflects back on 40 years of industrial ethnography in Zambia, the USA, Hungary and Russia to discover the mistakes he made and, thus, to infer ...
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piotrgoldstein.bsky.social
I am super happy to see this multimodal article published! It is part of research in @visionproject.bsky.social on #transborder work between #Poland & #Brandenburg #Germany, based at @dezim-institut.de, @unisalzburg.bsky.social and University of Amsterdam, funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de.