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{"title":"Notes From the Editorial Collective","authors":"Letizia Bonanno, Jasmine Folz, Rachel Smith","doi":"10.1111/awr.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We updated our Author Guidelines earlier this year to clarify that we will not accept any manuscripts that have used AI in any stage of the writing or revising process. We do not condone using AI in the reviewing process, either. We want to take the opportunity to explain how our strict no AI policy is rooted in our position both as anthropologists of work and as editors.</p><p>The real and imagined threats of AI have been choking our news feeds for months. While some of these threats are very real, for example the ways the management class is using AI to discipline labor and the environmental impacts of data centers, some of these threats can best be understood as manufactured problems (existential threats of so-called ‘super-intelligent’ AI) that only the big players in the AI space are capable of mitigating. ‘AI’ itself is a marketing term first used in the 1950s to promote the technology as more impressive than it is.</p><p>When we refer to ‘AI’ we mean generative large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT or Claude which can be prompted to generate outputs. While these outputs occur instantaneously and can appear impressive, they are at best banal and at worst riddled with errors. Please note that the errors are not ‘hallucinations’ but expected outputs inherent to the way the technology works. Generative AI is similar to the automated text completion on your phone—the technology is using a large amount of data to predict what the next word/number/image would look like based on similar configurations in its model. Many have used the term ‘spicy auto-complete’ as a more accurate description of how this kind of AI works. In sum, this technology cannot think or feel, results in users outsourcing their cognitive abilities to produce unoriginal work, by design a significant portion of its output will be wrong, and, also by design, it requires far more energy than the technology we have previously used for word processing and image generation. For these reasons alone we could say we do not want authors or reviewers to use this technology for work in our journal. However, as anthropologists of work we want to emphasize that our objections to this technology are also rooted in how AI requires labor exploitation and results in unpaid labor from journal editors and reviewers.</p><p>First, large language models require large amounts of data. No permission was asked or granted and no compensation was given for the scraped data used to build LLMs. This stolen work is then churned through the mill and spit out as the user's own without attribution. In other words, this is plagiarism on a global scale. That the universities many of us work for are now encouraging students and academics to participate in sanctioned plagiarism adds insult to the injury that our work has been stolen.</p><p>Second, as anthropologists of work have pointed out for years, invisible labor is baked into digital technologies generally and AI specifically. People must screen raw","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/awr.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making Shrimp in Moral Economies: Time, Ethics, and Labor in a Global Supply Chain","authors":"Femke Vulto","doi":"10.1111/awr.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is part of the special issue 'Morality at Work: Ethnographies of Labor and Ethics' edited by Michael Vine and Sarah Winkler-Reid. This article explores how future-oriented temporalities shape people's labor experiences and ethical subjectivities within the global supply chain of brown shrimp. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dutch fishers, Moroccan shrimp peelers, and European processing managers, it traces how embedded notions of risk, luck, and destiny mediate workers' engagement with the uncertainty of the future. Processing company managers in Europe employ risk management practices to assert control over volatile markets, while North Sea fishers rely on notions of luck to navigate the unpredictability of fishing. In Moroccan peeling factories, workers often invoke destiny when making sense of their precarious working conditions. This article argues that attention to these divergent orientations toward the future offers critical insight into the moral economies that drive different forms of work under global capitalism.</p>","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/awr.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Playing Tetris”: Domestic Infrastructures of Labor Participation in Spain's Transport Sector","authors":"Belén Martínez Caparrós","doi":"10.1111/awr.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how women drivers in Malaga's private passenger transport sector sustain paid work while holding primary responsibility for domestic labor and care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2020 and 2021 with women taxi and platform-based drivers (Uber and Cabify), it explores the everyday arrangements that make employment possible in a male-dominated industry characterized by long and unsociable working hours. I show that women's participation in paid work depends on what I call domestic infrastructures of labor participation: informal household arrangements that organize and sustain labor participation through the coordination of care, time, and support. Through three ethnographic cases, the article shows how these arrangements operate unevenly: sometimes enabling employment, sometimes intensifying strain, and sometimes failing altogether. By shifting attention from platforms and workplaces to the domestic infrastructures through which labor participation is assembled, the analysis highlights how labor markets rely on largely invisible forms of coordination. The findings also point to the growing fragility of family-based care arrangements in Spain, as successive generations of women remain in paid employment and are less available to provide intergenerational support, raising questions about the conditions under which women can continue to participate in work.</p>","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/awr.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racialization and the Gig Economy","authors":"Shreya Subramani,&nbsp;Christien Tompkins","doi":"10.1111/awr.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148306202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Familiar Interfaces: Norms of Domesticity and Immigrant Latina Workers on Care Work Platforms","authors":"Magally Miranda","doi":"10.1111/awr.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the experiences of immigrant Latina domestic workers on care work platforms, arguing that these technologies extend historical norms of domesticity into the digital era through algorithmic bias, visibility regimes, and quantification. Drawing on ethnographic engagement with fifteen workers in Los Angeles alongside platform analysis, it introduces the framework of <i>familiar interfaces</i> to show how user interfaces and the data that shape them rely on historically sedimented racialized and gendered scripts of domesticity. Using co-research methods, the article centers workers' stories and situated knowledge to illuminate how they navigate, perform, and contest opaque algorithmic systems. By situating platform-mediated care work within longer histories of racialized, gendered, and migratory domestic labor, this study contributes to scholarship on labor and technology while reorienting analyses of the so-called gig economy away from androcentric, public-facing sectors like ride-hailing and delivery, and toward the historically feminized, racialized, and immigrant labor of domestic work.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Keeping Company: Exploring the Positive Dimensions of Emotional Labor in China's Pei Liao Industry","authors":"Manchun Du,&nbsp;Ryan G. Hornbeck","doi":"10.1111/awr.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines positive dimensions of emotional labor through ethnographic fieldwork on paid online companionship in China's <i>pei liao</i> industry. We argue that dominant concepts in emotional labor research outside anthropology have limited the extent to which emotional labor's brighter possibilities can be recognized—specifically, by framing it as inherently self-deceptive, overlooking workers' interactional skill in shaping encounters, and relying on static models of the self. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews with <i>pei liao</i> workers, we address these limitations by introducing “identity positioning” as both an analytic concept and an observed interactional strategy. Identity positioning refers to the deliberate selection and foregrounding of role-, group-, and trait-based identities that are already meaningful to workers, rather than the suppression or reworking of inner feelings, as a means of building rapport with clients. We then show that identity positioning's positive outcomes may arise through two pathways: it can enable workers to engage and develop identities that are acknowledged yet underdeveloped in their repertoire, and to elaborate already salient identities into distinct variants through interactions with different clients.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"Navigating Choice: School Buses as Racializing Infrastructure in Post-Katrina New Orleans","authors":"Christien Philmarc Tompkins","doi":"10.1111/awr.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is part of the special issue, Racialization and The Gig Economy, <i>Anthropology of Work Review</i> 47 (1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article explores the expansion of school busing systems in the aftermath of New Orleans' unprecedented conversion of all public schools to privately managed charter schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The charter system strikingly moved from neighborhood schools to schools of choice, forcing the primarily black and low-income student body to commute twice as long to school across an increasingly fractured racial landscape. The article argues that the school bus and the students themselves have become <i>racializing infrastructures</i> and that the mobility labor of these students is both reflective of larger transformations in gig economies and, in its spatial and racial dimensions, has turned their access to schooling into a form of gig work. Like gig workers, students are increasingly forced to circulate between urban core and periphery in service of both their own entrepreneurial and economic ambitions but also in service of larger ideological projects of choice and a market model of society—movements with hidden social and economic costs and unjust burdens.</p>","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/awr.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148086358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notes From the Editorial Collective","authors":"Letizia Bonanno,&nbsp;Jasmine Folz,&nbsp;Rachel Smith","doi":"10.1111/awr.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148076288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Finding One's Footing: Hidden Abodes of Production in the Global Running Economy","authors":"Hannah Borenstein","doi":"10.1111/awr.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article is part of the special issue ‘Racialization and The Gig Economy’ (AWR July 2026; 47(1)) edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article examines how Ethiopian women distance runners labor within—and reveal the contradictions of—the global running economy. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic research in Ethiopia, Europe, and the United States, I analyze how athletes navigate two intertwined value circuits: the mass consumer markets of the Global North, where running shoes become lucrative lifestyle commodities, and the elite competitive circuit, where a small number of East African athletes generate the spectacular performances that confer value on those commodities. Through attention to everyday struggles over access to “super shoes,” contract negotiations, prize structures, and the social life of footwear, I show how Ethiopian athletes' labor forms a hidden abode of production that is indispensable yet structurally obscured. Racialized discourses of “marketability,” gendered hierarchies of visibility, and the fetishization of African “natural ability” shape how value is extracted from athletes while limiting their ability to realize it as income, mobility, or security. By centering women's critiques, misapprehensions, and aspirations, the article demonstrates how gig-like athletic labor in the transnational running economy is simultaneously empowering and precarious, illuminating broader dynamics of racial capitalism, technological change, and global inequality.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148076287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}