Labors of Consciousness: Culture, Capital, Moral Economy

How have the modes and meanings of labor transformed across time and place? What are some of the key interplays among labor, politics, subjectivity, religion, and sociality? How do social or cultural dimensions inflect, refract, or otherwise help to fashion the forms and meanings of labor? This course draws upon key works in anthropology, history, and social theory. It considers central topics that illuminate cultures of labor, including ideology, hegemony, dialectics, moral economy, habitus, enslavement, resistance, class, discipline, capital, post-industrialization, casualization, virtualization, and revolution.