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Dispossession and the Anthropology of Labor

Hofstra University, USA, anthsmk{at}hofstra.edu

August Carbonella

Memorial University, Canada, augustc{at}mun.ca

This article develops an approach to the anthropology of labor that seeks to transcend the North/South and working class/poor oppositions that have long framed our understanding of social inequality. Drawing upon David Harvey's understanding of the ways in which capitalism always creates its own Other through dispossession, as well as historical case studies of struggles against dispossession, we emphasize the mutability of class relations in both the global North and South, and point to the complex interconnections of the social movements of waged and unwaged laborers across the globe. This focus on the connections between peoples who are differently marked by processes of dispossession, we argue, simultaneously enriches our understanding of social inequality and furthers the project of decolonizing anthropology.

Key Words: difference • dispossession • labor • neoliberal globalization • working classes

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