Week 1 (January 31^st): Introduction 

Week 2 (February 7): Marx versus/and Foucault 

Marx, Karl. 1887 [1867]. Capital, Volume I: The Production of Absolute Surplus Value, Production of Relative Surplus Value. Moscow: Progress Publishers. 

*Feldman, Alex J. 2019. Power, Labour Power and Productive Force in Foucault’s Reading of Capital. Philosophy and Social Criticism 45(3):307-333. 

Foucault, Michel. 1977. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Pantheon Books. 

Graeber, David. 2013. It Is Value That Brings Universes into Being. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(2): 219-143. 

*Kasmir, Sharryn and August Carbonella. 2014. Introduction. In Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor, eds. S. Kasmir and A. Carbonella. New York: Berghahn Press. 

+Roseberry, William. 2002. Political Economy in the United States. In Culture, Economy, Power: Anthropology as Critique, Anthropology as Praxis, edited by Winne Lem and Belinda Leach, 59-72. Albany: State University of New York. 

+Sakolsky, Ron.1992. “Disciplinary Power,” The Labor Process, and the Constitution of the Laboring Subject. Rethinking Marxism 5(4): 114-126. 

Week 3 (February 14): Working Class: Culture and Capitalism 

+Chávez, Alex E. 2017. Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño. Durham: Duke University Press. [GC Library: Duke E-books] 

*Crehan, Kate. 2016. Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.  

Crehan, Kate. 2011. Gramsci’s Concept of Common Sense: A Useful Concept for Anthropologists? Journal of Modern Italian Studies 16(2) 272-287. 

Engels, Friedrich. 2009 [1845]. The Condition of the Working Class in England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Gorz, Andre. 1982. Farewell to the Working Class. Boston: South End Press. 

Graeber, David. 2012. Dead Ones of the Imagination: On Violence, Bureaucracy, and Interpretive Labor. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2(2): 105-128. 

Thompson, E.P. 1964 [1963]. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Pantheon Books. 

Thompson, E.P. 1967. Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism. Past and Present, 38: 56–97. 

Vélez-Ibañez, Carlos G. 1996. Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 

Week 4 (February 28): Race, Racial Capitalism, and Segmentation 

+Du Bois, W. E. B. 1969 [1920]. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Schocke Books. 

+Brodkin, Karen. 1998. Race, Class, and Gender: The Metaorganization of American Capitalism. Transforming Anthropology 7(2):46-57. 

Brodkin, Karen. Global Capitalism: What’s Race Got to do with it? American Ethnologist 27(2): 237-256. 

*Robinson, Cedric J. 2000. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. 

*Kelley, Robin. D. G. 2017. What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism? Boston Review, (2017 issue Race, Capitalism, Justice), January 12. 

+Wolf, Eric. 1982. Introduction and Chapter 12: The New Laborers. In Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Week 5 (March 7): Accumulation by Dispossession 

+Collins, Jane L. 2012. Theorizing Wisconsin’s 2011 Protests: Community-Based Unionism Confronts Accumulation by Dispossession. American Ethnologist 39 (1): 6–20. 

+ Çağlar, Ayşe and Nina Glick Schiller. 2018. Migrants & City Making: Dispossession, Displacement, & Urban Regeneration. Durham: Duke University Press. 

*Kasmir Sharryn and August Carbonella. 2008. Dispossession and the Anthropology of Labor. Critique of Anthropology 28(1):5-25. 

Harvey, David.  2003. The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Narotzky, Susana. 2020. Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe. London: Pluto Press. 

Week 6 (March 14). Citizenship and Borders 

Gomberg-Munoz, Ruth. 2010. Willing to Work: Agency and Vulnerability in an Undocumented Immigration Network,” American Anthropologist 112(2): 295-307. 

*Heyman, Josiah McC. 2012. Constructing a “Perfect” Wall: Race, Class, and Citizenship in US-Mexico Border Policing. In Migration in the 21st century: Political Economy and Ethnography, eds. P.G. Barber and W. Lem, 153-172. New York: Routledge. 

Molina, Natalia. 2014. How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

+ Ryburn, Megan. 2018. Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile. Oakland: University of California Press. 

Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2002. Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 

Week 7 (March 21). Gatekeeping Practices and Mobilities 

+Ferrel, Jeff. 2018. Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge. Oakland: University of California Press. 

* Jung, Moon-Ho. 2006. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. [Available at GC library electronic format] 

+ Karuka, Manu. 2019. Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad. Oakland: University of California Press. 

+ Lee, Erika. 2003. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. [Available at GC library electronic format] 

Ngai, Mae M. 2004. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 

Chan, Shelly. 2018. Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration. Durham: Duke University Press. Introduction, Chapter 4, and Chapter 5. 

Golash-Boza, Tonya. 2015. Deported: Policing Immigrants, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism. New York: NYU Press. 

Week 8 (March 28): Colonial Migrant Workers 

Baldoz, Rick. 2011. The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946. New York: New York University Press. 

Bahadur, Gaiutra. 2013. Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

*Bender, Daniel E. and Jana K. Lipman. 2015. Making the Empire Work: Labor & United States Imperialism. New York: NYU Press. Introduction. 

+Casey, Daniel. 2017. Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Ocupation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 

Findlay, Eileen J. 2014. We are Left Without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico. Durham: Duke University Press. 

García Colón, Ismael. 2020. Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms. Oakland: University of California Press. 

Giovannetti-Torres, Jorge L. 2018. Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1989-1948. New York: Cambridge University Press. 

+ Grosfoguel, Ramón. 2003. Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press. Part III. 

Kawashima, Ken C. 2009. The Proletarian Gamble Korean Workers in Interwar Japan. Durham: Duke University Press. 

Macmaster, Neil. 1997. Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 

Mayblin, Lucy and Joe Turner. 2021. Migration Studies and Colonialism. Cambridge, UK: Polity. 

Sayad, Abdelmalek. 2004. The Suffering of the Immigrant. Cambridge, UK: Polity. 

Week 9 (April 4). Gendered and Gendering Labor Migration: Domestics 

Collins, Jane L. 2003. Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

+Hardt, M. (1999). Affective Labor. Boundary 2, 26(2), 89-100. 

+Hondangneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2000. Feminism and Migration. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 571(September):107-120 

Hondangneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2001. Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Ehrenreich B. and A. Hochschild. 2002. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the Global Economy. New York: Holt. Introduction. 

Lane, Carrie M. 2009. Man Enough To Let My Wife Support Me: How Changing Models of Career and Gender Are Reshaping the Experience of Unemployment. American Ethnologist 36(4): 681-92. 

+Pessar, Patricia. R. 2003. Anthropology and the Engendering of Migration Studies. In American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigrants, ed. Nancy Foner, pp. 75–98. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. 

*Salazar Parreñas, Rhacel. 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 

Sassen, Saskia. 2003. Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy. In Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends, ed. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, pp. 43-60. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Week 10 (April 11): Precarious Work and Low-Wage Workers 

+Bales, Kevin Bales. “The New Slavery” and “Pakistan,” Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999), 1-33, 149-194. 

Collins, Jane L., and Victoria Mayer. 2010. Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-Wage Labor Market. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

+Griffith, David. 1993. Jones’s Minimal: Low-Wage labor in the United States. Albany: State University of New York. 

Molé, Noelle  J. 2010. Precarious Subjects: Anticipating Neoliberalism in Northern Italy’s Workplace. American Anthropologist 112(1):38-53. 

Sider, Gerald. 2014. Skin for Skin: Death and Life for Inuit and Innu. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

*Standing, Guy. 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 

Spring Break April 15-22 

Week 11 (April 25): Guest Workers 

Cohen, Deborah. 2001. Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 

Griffith, David. 2006. American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the Labor Market. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 

Griffith, David (ed.). 2014. (Mis) Managing Migration: Guestworkers’ Experiences with North American Labor Markets. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research. 

Gonzalez, Gilbert G. 2006. Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?: Mexican Labor Migration to the United States. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. 

*Martínez, Samuel. 1996. Indifference with Indignation: Anthropology, Human Rights, and the Haitian Bracero. American Anthropologist 98(1):17-25 

+Hahamovitch, Cindy. 2003. Creating Perfect Immigrants: Guestworkers of the World in Historical Perspective. Labor History 44(1):69-94. 

+Gardner, Andrew. 2012. Why Do They Keep Coming? Labor Migrants in the Gulf States. In Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf, eds. Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar. New York: Columbia University Press. 

Week 12 (May 2): Migrant Workers and the Production of Food 

Griffith, David and Ed Kissam with Jeronimo Camposeco, Anna García, Max Pfeffer, David Runsten, and Manuel Valdés Pizzini. 1995. Working Poor: Farmworkers in the United States. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 

Gray, Margaret. 2014. Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

*Holmes, Seth M. 2013. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

+ Horton, Sarah Bronwen. 2016. They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and the Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers. Oakland: University of California Press. 

+ Lopez, Ann Aurelia. 2007. The Farmworkers’ Journey. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Striffler, Steve. 2005. Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food. New Haven: Yale University Press. 

Watts, Michael. 1994. Life under Contract: Contract Farming, Agrarian Restructuring and Flexible Accumulation. In Living under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 

Week 13 (May 9). Political Mobilization and the Anthropology of Labor Migration 

+Barber, Pauline Gardiner, and Winnie Lem. 2012. Migration in the 21st century: Political Economy and Ethnography. New York: Routledge. Chapter 1, 2, 10, 11, 12 

Durrenberger, E. Paul and Karaleah S. Reichart. 2010. The Anthropology of Labor Unions. Louisville: University Press of Colorado. 

*Lem, Winnie, and Pauline Gardiner Barber. 2010. Class, Contention, and a World in Motion. New York: Berghahn Books. Introduction. 

Week 14 (May 16^th): Project Presentations 

Final Project Due May 23 

*Focus on this reading