Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Jong Bum Kwon is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Webster University. Carrie M. Lane is Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment, also from Cornell.