Between Work and Labor: Valuing Action in South Asia

Butt, Waqas H.; Hayat, Maira; Sargent, Adam

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“…Furthermore, there is no universal definition of work , nor is there a distinct boundary between work and labor—such as one being informal and the other being contingent on a wage. Rather, conceptions of work and labor are highly dependent on the broader social, cultural, and political context and can shift over time (Butt, 2020; Butt, Hayat, and Sargent, 2020; Kantor, 2020; Sargent, 2020). Is it possible then that certain forms of elite labor cannot be perceived as labor in the Iranian context?…”

Section: Illuminating Elite Invisible Labormentioning

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Invisible experts: The curious case of the book knower in Iran

Sheikholeslami

2023

Anthropology of Work Review

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This article explores the curious case of the ketab shenass (book knower), a figure unique to the Iranian publishing industry. Ketab shenass play a crucial role in the production of translated books, yet their labor is invisible and uncompensated. A comparison of their expertise to that of their closest counterparts reveals that anxieties surrounding the politics of mediation undergird the invisibility of the labor of the ketab shenass.

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Section: Illuminating Elite Invisible Labormentioning

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Invisible experts: The curious case of the book knower in Iran

Sheikholeslami

2023

Anthropology of Work Review

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Beyond “Enclaves”: Postcolonial Labor Mobility to and from Assam Tea Plantations

Wolf

2022

Anthropology of Work Review

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Labor mobility to and from tea plantations in India has been treated as an exception. Plantations continue to be imagined as unaltered enclaves with an immobile, bonded, or fixed labor force as their key feature. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in India, this article investigates forms of labor mobility to and from Assam tea plantations. While tea labor is not spatially immobile, I argue that spatial mobility does not necessarily lead to upward social mobility. Based on this observation, I reconsider the plantation in the twenty-first century in two ways: first, plantations are permeable and transforming spaces, due to ongoing labor mobility and evolving changes in the political economy of Assam tea production; second, certain forms of inequality and injustice attributed to plantation economies need to be located beyond the Plantationocene.

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Between Work and Labor: Valuing Action in South Asia

Cited by 2 publications

References 31 publications

Invisible experts: The curious case of the book knower in Iran

Invisible experts: The curious case of the book knower in Iran

Beyond “Enclaves”: Postcolonial Labor Mobility to and from Assam Tea Plantations

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