labour Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/labour/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:37:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png labour Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/labour/ 32 32 Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48547 During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/feed/ 0 Strengthening Women’s Financial Rights After Marriage: Matrimonial Property under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:12:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48377 While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of women’s rights to matrimonial property has been uncharted territory.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/feed/ 0 Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47071 Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/feed/ 0 Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture https://allegralaboratory.net/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-in-israeli-agriculture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-in-israeli-agriculture/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:27:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45660 Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-in-israeli-agriculture/feed/ 0 Being Fungible – They Only Want Us from the Neck Down https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/ https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:30:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43904 They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/feed/ 0 Of rails and rubbish: critique and the absurdity of cleaning days https://allegralaboratory.net/of-rails-and-rubbish-critique-and-the-absurdity-of-cleaning-days/ https://allegralaboratory.net/of-rails-and-rubbish-critique-and-the-absurdity-of-cleaning-days/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:00:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41505 In January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/of-rails-and-rubbish-critique-and-the-absurdity-of-cleaning-days/feed/ 0 Encountering Precarities: The Podcast https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/ https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:55:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40486 Allegra Editor Ian sits down with Thread guest editors Viola Castellano & Olivia Casagrande to discuss ‘Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/feed/ 0 Unfinished adulthood: discontinuous precarities as epistemic opportunities https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood-discontinuous-precarities-as-epistemic-opportunities/ https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood-discontinuous-precarities-as-epistemic-opportunities/#respond Thu, 04 May 2023 10:00:34 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40076 This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood-discontinuous-precarities-as-epistemic-opportunities/feed/ 0 A striking comparison: on young Senegalese wrestlers and precarious scholars https://allegralaboratory.net/a-striking-comparison-on-young-senegalese-wrestlers-and-precarious-scholars/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-striking-comparison-on-young-senegalese-wrestlers-and-precarious-scholars/#respond Wed, 03 May 2023 10:00:40 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40055 This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-striking-comparison-on-young-senegalese-wrestlers-and-precarious-scholars/feed/ 0 Unsteady grounds: On ethnography, academic precarity, and motherhood https://allegralaboratory.net/unsteady-grounds-on-ethnography-academic-precarity-and-motherhood/ https://allegralaboratory.net/unsteady-grounds-on-ethnography-academic-precarity-and-motherhood/#respond Tue, 02 May 2023 10:00:48 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40013 This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation […]

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