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Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers (2024): By Hatim Rahman
No full textIn Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers (2024), Hatim A. Rahman explores how algorithmic systems exert control over high-skilled freelancers on online labor platforms. Using the concepts of the "iron cage" and the "invisible cage," Rahman illustrates how opaque, dynamic algorithms shape workers' experiences, limit their ability to improve, and perpetuate unequal power dynamics. Drawing on ethnographic research, including 118 interviews and participant observation, the book critiques these algorithmic practices and offers solutions such as "episodic transparency" and involving diverse stakeholders in algorithm design to promote fairness and balance organizational interests with workers' rights
A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground (2021): By M.C. Kassabaum
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KASSABAUM, M.C., 2021, A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 288 pp., ISBN: 978-1-68340-241-
Dust Inside: Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil (2020): By Agata Mazzeo
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AGATA MAZZEO, 2020, Dust Inside: Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil, New York: Berghahn Books. 202 pp., ISBN 978-1-78920-931-
The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers (2019): By Cati Coe
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COE, CATI. 2019. The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers, New York University Press: New York, Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 304 pp., ISBN: 978147980883
Brenda Chalfin. 2023. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Duke University Press.
No full textBrenda Chalfin. 2023. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Duke University Press
Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry and Trauma from the 1930s to Present
Full text linkThe book is the first comparative trans-Asian examination of the history of psychological trauma in any language
Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism (2022): By Brandi Simpson Miller
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BRANDI SIMPSON MILLER, 2022, Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism. Cham: Springer International, 327 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-88403-
Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management (2023): By Stephen Paul Mumme
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STEPHEN PAUL MUMME, 2023, Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015, New York: The University of Arizona Press, 414 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-4830-
Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities (2022): By Catherine Pélissier Kingfisher
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Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier. 2022. Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781800732391 (hardback) | ISBN 9781800732407 (ebook). Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations; volume 8. 242 pages including bibliography and indexes
Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives (2024): By Tanya Elizabeth Clement
No full textIn Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives, Tanya E. Clement addresses the underrepresentation of spoken word audio recordings in archival institutions and their neglect in literary scholarship. The book proposes a new methodology for interacting with sound archives, 'close listening,' and applies it to case studies which include oral histories of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Zora Neale Hurston’s ethnographic recordings, and personal therapy sessions by Anne Sexton. The review argues that the methodology has potential but suggests that it would benefit from a deeper engagement with psychoanalytic concepts and a more narrow focus.