Dialectical Anthropology - Special Issue: "Labour Politics in an Age of Precarity" free to access through February

This special issue interrogates how the precaritization of labor affects the form and possibilities of contemporary work-based politics. It does so in reference to ethnographic research conducted in a wide variety of contexts that consider how the experience of precarity vary between the Global North and South. It demonstrates strategies, histories, and experiences from South, East, and Central Asia, as well as the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America in order to analyze how labor politics are embedded in daily life and what it means to live with risk, resistance, aspiration, bureaucracy, morality, class conflict, and the state. 

Table of Contents (this opens in a new tab):

1. "Workers of the World! (this opens in a new tab)" by Winnie Lem and Anthony Marcus
2. "Understanding labour politics in an age of precarity (this opens in a new tab)" by Sian Lazar and Andrew Sanchez
3. "Locating precarization: the state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal (this opens in a new tab)" by Patrícia Matos
4. "‘The landfill has always borne fruit’: precarity, formalisation and dispossession among Uruguay’s waste pickers (this opens in a new tab)" by Patrick O’ Hare
5. "Precarity, by comparison: the uncertain transnationalization of labor politics between Korea and the Philippines (this opens in a new tab)" by Elisabeth Schober
6. "“Having a name of one’s own, being a part of history”: temporalities of precarity and political subjectivities of popular economy workers in Argentina (this opens in a new tab)" by María Inés Fernández-Álvarez
7. "Coping with precarity: subsistence, labor, and community politics among farmworkers in northern Mexico (this opens in a new tab)" by Christian Zlolniski
8. "Beyond factory safety: labor unions, militant protest, and the accelerated ambitions of Bangladesh’s export garment industry (this opens in a new tab)" by Hasan Ashraf and Rebecca Prentice
9. "Everyday barricades: bureaucracy and the affect of struggle in trade unions (this opens in a new tab)" by Eeva Kesküla and Andrew Sanchez
10. "Afterword: reflections on labor politics in an age of precarity (this opens in a new tab)" by Gavin Smith
11. "Precarious revolution: labour and neoliberal securitisation in Egypt (this opens in a new tab)" by Dina Makram-Ebeid