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:

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