Sharryn Kasmir is Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University, USA.Lesley Gill is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, USA.
PART I
Divisions of labor 1
1 To have a life: labor reproduction, value, and negative value
Susana Narotzky
2 The many workers of capitalism
Aviva Chomsky
3 Labour, property and persons: refl ections from Papua New Guinea
Keir Martin
4 Labor and merchant capitalism in Myanmar and Thailand
Stephen Campbell
5 Between the labor theory of value and the value theory of labor: a
program note
Don Kalb
6 Social reproduction and the heterogeneity of the population as labour
Gavin Smith
7 Labor in the time of COVID- 19 (with apologies toGabriel Garc?a M?rquez)
Andrew Herod
PART II
Organizing, mobilizing, and resisting
8 Labour organisation: traditional trade unions and beyond
Sian Lazar
9 Class analysis across the Capitalist/ Communist divide: practicing the
anthropology of labor in Kerala and Cuba
Luisa Steur
10 New forms of labor and resistance in the era of fi nancialization
Ida Susser
11 International unions as a sphere of working- class (re)organization:
anthropological insights into Latin American steel workers
Julia Soul
12 Working- class, politicalls˘