Introduction. Dislocating labour: anthropological reconfigurations

Harvey, Penélope; Krohn-Hansen, Christian

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“…Such an anthropological analysis of ‘labour’ offers insight into some of the moral politics shaping enduring practices and shifting flashpoints in the emergent localities, economies and socialities forged out of multi‐scalar dynamics involved in artisanal gold production in Tonkolili district. Such a focus usefully shows how such practices are entwined with differential valuations of human activities, generating ‘distinctions [that] come to shape what counts as proper work, and affect the value of the work, not least in terms of what is and what is not legible and/or recognized by the state’ (Harvey and Krohn‐Hansen, 2018: 16; see also Narotsky, 2018).…”

Section: On the Moral Politics Of Artisinal Mining Women And Labour:mentioning

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The Moral Politics of Gendered Labour in Artisanal Mining in Sierra Leone

Rutherford¹

2020

Development and Change

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Drawing on current anthropological approaches to labour, this article examines some of the moral politics mobilized around women and artisanal mining in policy-inflected scholarship with reference to particular gold mining zones in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone. In so doing, the article proposes that such a focus on labour not only allows one to appreciate how sentiments concerning (im)proper behaviour infuse wider policy proposals to amend social arrangements in regard to what is called 'artisanal mining', but it also offers insight into some of the enduring moral politics helping to constitute women as 'family workers' in the actual artisanal gold mining zones. The article suggests that examining the overlapping moral politics constituting women's labour practices provides a more supple understanding of the contested economic possibilities for women in this livelihood practice.

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Section: On the Moral Politics Of Artisinal Mining Women And Labour:mentioning

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The Moral Politics of Gendered Labour in Artisanal Mining in Sierra Leone

Rutherford¹

2020

Development and Change

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“…Our focus on how unions influence the workplace enables us to foreground unions within the anthropology of labour. Labour ethnography has increasingly focused on concerns like kinship, personhood and affect, analysing a worker simultaneously at their place of employment and through how their worker identities respond to and shape their community Carbonella 2008 andHarvey andKrohn-Hansen 2019). Several of our articles unpack the role of unions in creating workers' subjectivities in the home and work spaces (cf.…”

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Introduction—trade unions in times of austerity and development

McNamara

Spyridakis

2020

Dialect Anthropol

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This special issue seeks to understand how unions resist and are reshaped as they confront global capital and neoliberal austerity. It was born out of panels at the annual conferences of European Association of Social Anthropologists and the American Anthropology Association and through ongoing conversations about the similarities and differences between the challenges unions face from austerity in the Global North and from Global South aspirations for national 'development'. The papers explore unions' interactions with 'actually existing neoliberalisms', where the state and other actors express extreme faith in markets as policy devices, and in the superior efficiency of the private sector (Rizzo 2017). We describe unions responding to the growing criticism (from the right) that they imped the economic growth that would assist all of society and (from the left) that they represent a privileged and increasingly irrelevant minority of workers. While we explore unions' attempts to dispute these narratives, our special issue is equally invested in detailing how unionism is re-constructed inside a community and, through this, how unions respond to, and co-create, legal, economic and cultural structures. In analysing how unionism shapes and responds to economic practices and workplace subjectivities, we foreground that the obligations and entitlements of being a 'unionist' and a 'worker' are negotiated through intra-community expectations and political histories. We therefore link unions to recent breakthroughs in the anthropological study of capitalism, where political economies are enacted through sociality and subjectivity (cf. Bear et al. 2015 andHann andParry 2018). Unionism is only beginning to be analysed using this framework, yet we show that unions are crucial to the concepts of self and relationships that shape and enable intra-national capitalisms (c.f. Kasmir 2014 and Lazar 2017). We explore how unions guide and respond to what it means to be a miner, steelworker or longshoreman, while simultaneously influencing what it means to be Zambian, Congolese, Greek or Dialectical Anthropology

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“…This embodied labor can be alienating, in the sense that MLM workers are under pressure to perform the beneficial effect of their services and products without necessarily experiencing it as such, in the same way that flight attendants’ emotional labor is alienating, as they paint on a smile that they don't feel (Hochschild ). In MLM, moreover, sociometabolic labor is “dislocated” (Harvey and Krohn‐Hansen ) by the upward movement of capital, which perpetuates preexisting inequalities. As long as new down‐lines keep getting recruited, up‐lines make money.…”

Section: Sociometabolic Work In Conditions Of Precaritymentioning

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Hardon

Davatos

Lasco

2019

American Ethnologist

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A B S T R A C TYoung people in Puerto Princesa, the Philippines, are drawn to working as salespeople for AIM Global, a purveyor of the nutritional supplement C24/7. The company relies on multilevel marketing, in which sellers recruit other sellers, offering youth not only the chance to earn money but also educational discounts, access to bank cards, and an opportunity to develop do-it-yourself entrepreneurial skills. Trainers encourage sellers to capitalize on their intimate relations, to tailor the supplements to assuage aging clients' metabolic-health anxieties, and to use C24/7 themselves so that they can testify to its benefits. Such "sociometabolic" work is omnipresent in urban settings, where workers in beauty salons and gyms likewise promise to mitigate the material, bodily disturbances caused by toxic environments and precarious living conditions. [multilevel marketing, youth, sociometabolic labor, relational work, aspirations, nutritional supplements, metabolic health, ecology, Philippines] Ang mga kabataan sa Puerto Princesa, Pilipinas ay nabibighaning magtrabaho bilang mga ahente ng AIM Global, ang kompanya na nagtitinda ng C24/7, isang nutritional supplement. Ang kompanya ay nakasalalay sa multilevel marketing o networking kung saan ang mga kasapi ay nag-aanyaya ng iba pang kasapi upang lumaki ang pagkakataong kumita. Para sa mga kabataan, ang pagsali ay AIM Global ay isang pagkakataon hindi lamang para magka-pera kundi pati na rin mabigyan ng mga diskwento sa matrikula, magkaron ng account sa banko, at makamtan ang iba't ibang kaalamang pang-negosyo. Ang mga sumasali sa kampanya ay hinihimok na gamitin ang kanilang mga kakilala upang maka-"recruit" ng mga bagong kasapi, ibagay ang pang-aalok ng produkto ayon sa mga alalhaning pangkalusugan ng kanilang mga nagtatandaang kliyente, at gumamit rin ng C24/7 upang sila mismo ay makapag-testigo ukol sa mga benepisyo nito. Ang "trabaho" o "diskarte" na nakapaloob sa pagiging bahagi ng networking ay karaniwang makikita sa mga lungsod kung saan ang mga trabahador sa mga beauty salon at gym ay nangangako ring magbigay-lunas sa mga karamdamang buhat ng nakalalason at magulong kapaligiran ng mga syudad. [multi-level marketing, networking, kabataan, hangarin, pakikipagkapwa, nutritional supplement, Pilipinas]

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Introduction. Dislocating labour: anthropological reconfigurations

Cited by 34 publications

References 64 publications

The Moral Politics of Gendered Labour in Artisanal Mining in Sierra Leone

The Moral Politics of Gendered Labour in Artisanal Mining in Sierra Leone

Introduction—trade unions in times of austerity and development

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