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Neuroaquilombar the Black and the Autistic to Decenter White-Neurotypicality in the Workplace: Normal Is Just Another Word for White 从黑人和自闭者到白人：工作场所的神经典型性：正常只是白人的另一种说法

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-06-22 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70000

Mayne Souza Benedetto, Kátia Moraes

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“Activism Was a Survival Strategy”: Chronic Illness and the Power of Endometriosis Activism as Work “行动主义是一种生存策略”：慢性疾病和子宫内膜异位症行动主义作为工作的力量

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70005

Anika König, Caroline Meier zu Biesen

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Introduction to “Laboring from ex-centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity, and Work” “从非中心场所劳动：残疾、慢性和工作”导言

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70007

Giorgio Brocco, Stefanie Mauksch

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Living “Out of the Loop”: Unemployment in the Context of Long-Term Illness 生活在“循环之外”：长期疾病背景下的失业

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70004

Esca van Blarikom, Nina Fudge, Deborah Swinglehurst

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Bodyworkability Bodyworkability

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70008

Elif Irem Az

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Notes From the Editorial Collective 来自编辑集体的注释

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70006

Tarini Bedi, Letizia Bonanno, Jasmine Folz, Rachel Smith

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Indigenous Men With Disabilities at Work: Corpospatial Reconfigurations in/of a Changing Rural Mexico 工作中的残疾土著男性：变化中的墨西哥农村的公司空间重新配置

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70003

Joan Francisco Matamoros-Sanin, Laura Montesi

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Breathing Free: Chronicity, Pollution, and Imaginaries of Good Work in India 自由呼吸：慢性、污染和对印度好工作的想象

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70001

Ipshita Ghosh

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Work Cannot Save Us but Let's Still Try: Labor, Utopias, and Futurity at an Equine Therapy Farm 工作不能拯救我们，但让我们继续尝试：马治疗农场的劳动，乌托邦和未来

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70002

Maura Finkelstein

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Introduction to the special issue: Organizing domestic work: The limits of regulations in the wake of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention 特刊导言：组织家务劳动：国际劳工组织《家庭工人公约》后条例的局限性

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12278

Cati Coe, Alana Lee Glaser

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