Blood and Fire

Sharryn Kasmir is Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University. She is the author of The "Myth" of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working Class Life in a Basque Town (State University of New York Press) and other works on the anthropology of labor. August Carbonella is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University, Newfoundland. He has published widely on the historical memory of the Viet Nam War, and on problems of structural violence, class, race, and citizenship in North America.

• Introduction: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella Chapter 1. Fragmented Solidarity: Political Violence and Neoliberalism in Colombia Lesley Gill Chapter 2. Labor in Place/Capitalism in Space: The Making and Unmaking of a Local Working Class in Maine's "Paper Plantation" August Carbonella Chapter 3. Flexible Labor/Flexible Housing: The Rescaling of Mumbai into a Global Financial Center and the Fate of its Working Class Judy Whitehead Chapter 4. Structures without Soul and Immediate Struggles: Rethinking Militant Particularism in Contemporary Spain Susana Narotzky Chapter 5. The Saturn Plant and the Long Dispossession of U.S. Autoworkers Sharryn Kasmir Chapter 6. "Worthless Poles" and Other Dispossessions: Toward an Anthropology of Labor in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe Don Kalb Notes on Contributors Index

"This is a superb and important book. It is a book that is sorely needed in the field of anthropology (and also labor history). There has not been an attempt to take stock of where anthropology stands in relation to the study of labor in nearly 30 years, and so much has happened since then - The chapters all present key cases in compelling ways, incorporate analysis into their historical narratives, and are remarkably well written. Each is a tour-de-force of social history." * Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This is a collection of highly original pieces which, taken together, make an important contribution - to the anthropology of labor. Anthropologists wishing to engage with the ever more complex relations and forms of labor will rush to read it, and non-anthropologists ever more fascinated by the insights ethnography affords to an increasingly messy and ill-formed socio-economy will likewise be drawn to the book." * Gavin Smith, University of Toronto " - an outstanding collection of essays that address formative questions that are of great import to anthropologists and social scientists more generally, historians among others. This volume is exemplary - [in that] all the essays are striking for their clarity of prose and argumentation." * Linda Green, University of Arizona "[this] excellent volume sets up an ambitious and engaging theoretical framework for a new anthropology of labor - Particularly powerful is the book's emphasis on the interrelation between class, spatiality, violence and history." * Massimiliano Mollona, Goldsmiths College, London University