Congratulations to the five early-career scholars of work who were awarded small grants by SAW for their research.

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Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to the Eric Wolfe Prize. Submissions are due on September 1, 2025.

Please email your submissions to ([email protected]).

See the cfp below!
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Call for Submissions! We are delighted to invite submissions for the 2025 SAW Book Prize which will be awarded to a monograph with a publication date of 2023 or later.
Deadline is June 5, 2025.
We look forward to your submissions!
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We are excited to announce two grant opportunities for current grad students and post-PhD scholars who do not hold a tenure-track faculty position. The maximum amount across both grant programs is $6000. Apply by May 15, 2025. Link for more info.

The Society for the Anthropology of Work is delighted to welcome Jasmine Folz, Letizia Bonnano, and Rachel Smith as the incoming editors of the Anthropology of Work Review, the Society’s peer-reviewed journal!

Read more about our new editors here:
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SAW is delighted to announce the release of our December 2024 AWR special issue on Organizing Domestic Work: The Limits of Regulations in the Wake of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, co-edited by Guest editors Alana Glaser and Cati Coe.
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New post up on the SAW Website Teaching Tools Section!
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Starting now til 5:45 Eastern at #aaa2023 Racialization and the Gig Economy with Shreya Subramani, Christien Tompkins, Maga Miranda, and Roxana Dobson with @gleemie.bsky.social and Sareeta Amrute as discussants: conferencedirect.zoom.us/j/8125565772...

“Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs” www.sapiens.org/culture/davi...
“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.” #AnthroSky #Anthropology #DavidGraeber

Hi #anthrosky. Is anyone going to Tampa this week for #AAA2024? If you are, I'd love to see you at my panel: Making as Ethnographic Praxis. We'll be sharing papers on craft-making as ethnographic practice and are delighted to have Cristina Grasseni as our discussant.

Watch SAW online at #AAA2024:
“The Promise and Perils of Evolving North American Temporary Labor Programs,” organized by Tristan Call and James Daria and scheduled for Saturday, November 23 from 12:45–2:15pm Eastern Time, will be livestreamed on the SAW Facebook page.

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Watch SAW sessions at #aaa2024 online:
“Making as Ethnographic Praxis,” organized by Juliet Glazer and Jimil Ataman and scheduled for Wednesday, November 20 from 4:15–5:45pm Eastern Time, will be livestreamed on the SAW Facebook page.

Livestream: www.facebook.com/anthrowork/

Wednesday 11:45am-12:45pm Eastern, on zoom! Join our Society for the Anthropology of Work Business Meeting to hear about our resources, initiatives, and meet other anthropologists committed to broadening the study of work and labor. #aaa2024

RSVP or join on zoom: ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hello, world! We are building the Society for the Anthropology of Work on this open, social network. Can we replace parts of our infrastructure, layer by layer, and end up with a different one aligned with our values? Let's see.

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