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Life-Making on the Line: Capitalist Value, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Call Centre Labour in Portugal 在线上的生活：资本主义价值，社会再生产，以及葡萄牙呼叫中心劳动力的政治

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-11-14 Epub Date: 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70013

Patrícia Alves de Matos

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“Don't Complain”: Labor Anxiety, Racial Ideologies, and Moral Micromanagement in Rural South Carolina “不要抱怨”：南卡罗来纳农村的劳动焦虑、种族意识形态和道德微观管理

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-11-14 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70015

Sydney Pullen

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Visualizing Transborder Lifeworlds in the Polish-German Border Region 波兰-德国边境地区跨界生活世界的可视化

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-11-14 Epub Date: 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70010

Iepke M. Rijcken, Piotr Goldstein, Maksymilian Awuah

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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 : 2025-11-14 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70016

Tarini Bedi, Letizia Bonanno, Jasmine Folz, Rachel Smith

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Enterprising Citizens: Digital Self-Help Gurus in Post-Liberalization India 进取的公民：后自由化印度的数字自助大师

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-11-14 Epub Date: 2025-08-04 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70009

Riddhi Bhandari, Siddhi Gyan Pandey

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Redivisions of Work: Manufacturing Labor and Training in Switzerland's Knowledge Economy 工作的重新划分：瑞士知识经济中的制造业劳动力和培训

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-11-14 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70011

Johanna Mugler

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New Ways of Life: Cultivating Balance at a Tech Start-Up During Lockdown 新的生活方式：在封锁期间在一家科技初创企业培养平衡

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2025-11-14 Epub Date: 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70012

Lily Rodel

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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 : 2025-07-17 Epub Date: 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70003

Joan Francisco Matamoros-Sanin, Laura Montesi

{"title":"Indigenous Men With Disabilities at Work: Corpospatial Reconfigurations in/of a Changing Rural Mexico","authors":"Joan Francisco Matamoros-Sanin, Laura Montesi","doi":"10.1111/awr.70003","DOIUrl":"10.1111/awr.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article is part of the special issue Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch. Over the last century, indigenous rurality in Mexico has undergone profound sociocultural and economic transformations. Peasant activities have declined, racialized forms of employment have emerged, and chronic conditions have skyrocketed, mirrored in the increasing numbers of people living with disabilities and for longer time spans. In such a context, disability and masculinity are simultaneously active shapers of spaces <i>and</i> embodiments of larger corpospatial transformations. Focusing on the work/disability experiences of three indigenous men of rural origin, we explore how being at work despite physical restrictions implies a rearrangement of how the body inhabits space and relates to working objects, including those which are culturally considered more “feminine.” By employing the concept “corpospatiality” we depict a set of dynamics that interlink gendered bodies, spaces, and objects in sociohistorically shaped fields. We understand these work/disability corpospatial (re)configurations as individual and collective responses to the conflict caused by shrinking environments due to disability. The intersection of disability and “work”—a mediating and transforming activity between humans and their surroundings—constitutes a privileged locus to think about changing masculinities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43035,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of Work Review","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144657633","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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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 : 2025-07-17 Epub Date: 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70004

Esca van Blarikom, Nina Fudge, Deborah Swinglehurst

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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 : 2025-07-17 Epub Date: 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/awr.70005

Anika König, Caroline Meier zu Biesen

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