Anthropology 216PR - Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Precarious Labor'

What do scholars and policy makers mean by the term "precarious labor"? How have transformations in global capitalism contributed to the proliferation of poorly paid work conducted in unsafe conditions in the Global North as well as the Global South? How do nation-states' attempts to regulate migration contribute to the maintenance of unfree labor conditions? How has the globalization of precarious labor affected the organization of reproductive and care labor within families and households in different parts of the world? These questions will be examined through interdisciplinary scholarship on labor under neoliberal capitalism in the Global South as well as in the Global North.

Prereq: ANTHR-105 or SOCI-123.