Dislocating Labour

Penny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She has done fieldwork in Peru, Spain and the UK and published on technology, infrastructure, expertise, materiality and the modern state. Recent publications include Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (authored with Knox, Cornell University Press, 2015) and  Infrastructures and Social Complexity (edited with Bruun Jensen and Morita, Routledge 2016);Christian Krohn-Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has done fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and the United States, and his research interests are centred upon the study of power and violence, political and economic life, and history. His publications include Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics and Everyday Life (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) and Political Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

• Notes on contributors‘Introduction. Dislocating labour: Anthropological reconfigurations’ (Penelope Harvey and Christian Krohn-Hansen)1. ‘Rethinking the concept of labour’ (Susana Narotzky)Labour and capital2. ‘Reconfiguring labour value and the capital-labour relation in Italian global fashion’ (Sylvia Yanagisako)3. ‘”Making” labour in Mexican artisanal workshops’ (Alanna Cant)4. ‘Recapturing the household. Reflections on labour, productive relations and economic value’ (Marit Melhuus)5. ‘Wage-labour and a double separation in Papua New Guinea and beyond’ (Keir Martin)Disorganization, precarity and affect6. ‘Re-learning to labour? “Activation works” and new politics of social assistance in the case of Slovak Roma’ (Jan Grill)7. ‘Interrupted futures: Co-operative labour and the changing forms of collective precarity in rural Andean Peru’ (Penelope Harvey)8. ‘Working (wo)man’s suicide. Transnational relocations of capital – repercussions for labour in South Korea’ (Elisabeth Schober)Shifting relations between state, capital and place9. ‘Moral ecologies of subsistence and labour in a migration-affected community of Nepal’ (Ben Campbell)10. ‘State, labour, and kin: Tensions of value in an egalitarian community’ (Ingjerd Hoëm)11. ‘State against industry: Time and labour among Dominican furniture makers’ (Christian Krohn-Hansen)Index