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Technics of Labor: Productivism, Expertise, and Solid Waste Management in a Public-Private Partnership 劳动技术:公私合作中的生产主义、专业知识和固体废物管理

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12196

Waqas H. Butt

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引用次数: 2

Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers. David F. Lancy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018. 儿童作为帮手、工人、工匠和劳动者的人类学视角。大卫·f·兰西。纽约:Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018。

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12206

Jennifer E. Shaw PhD

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Working against Labor: Struggles for Self in the Indian Construction Industry 与劳工斗争:印度建筑业的自我斗争

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12199

Adam Sargent

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引用次数: 6

Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy. Melissa Gregg. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018. 适得其反:知识经济中的时间管理。梅丽莎·格雷格。达勒姆和伦敦:杜克大学出版社，2018。

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12203

Kumud Bhansali

引用次数: 2

Afterword: Work, Place, and the Value of Ethnography 后记:工作、地点和民族志的价值

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12195

Sarah Besky

引用次数: 1

The Bureaucrat’s Wage: (De)Valuations of Work in an Irrigation Bureaucracy 官僚的工资:(解)灌溉官僚的工作价值

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12207

Maira Hayat

引用次数: 2

Afterword: A “Division of Laborers” 后记:《分工论》

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12200

Sharika Thiranagama

引用次数: 1

Between Work and Labor: Valuing Action in South Asia 工作与劳动之间:南亚的评估行动

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12197

Waqas Butt, Maira Hayat, Adam Sargent

引用次数: 2

Bullshit Jobs. David Graeber. London & New York: Penguin Books, 2018. 扯淡的工作。大卫·格雷柏。伦敦和纽约:企鹅出版社，2018。

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12205

Thomas Klikauer, Catherine Link

引用次数: 1

Locating the Farmer: Ideologies of Agricultural Labor in Bihar, India 定位农民:印度比哈尔邦农业劳动的意识形态

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Anthropology of Work Review Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/awr.12208

Hayden S. Kantor

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引用次数: 5