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This elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated, and ethnographically rich book makes an important contribution to cultural understanding of labor, gender and kinship in the complex context of twenty-first century capitalism. --Janet L. Finn author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960 (05/09/2013) A profound contribution to new kinship studies and temporality studies in anthropology, women and gender studies, labor studies, and political economic literature. --Anthropology of Work Review

""This elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated, and ethnographically rich book makes an important contribution to cultural understanding of labor, gender and kinship in the complex context of twenty-first century capitalism."" - Janet L. Finn (author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960) ""A profound contribution to new kinship studies and temporality studies in anthropology, women and gender studies, labor studies, and political economic literature."" (Anthropology of Work Review)

This elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated, and ethnographically rich book makes an important contribution to cultural understanding of labor, gender and kinship in the complex context of twenty-first century capitalism. --Janet L. Finn author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960 (05/09/2013)

"""A profound contribution to new kinship studies and temporality studies in anthropology, women and gender studies, labor studies, and political economic literature.""-- ""Anthropology of Work Review"" ""This elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated, and ethnographically rich book makes an important contribution to cultural understanding of labor, gender and kinship in the complex context of twenty-first century capitalism.""--Janet L. Finn ""author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960"""

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 JESSICA SMITH ROLSTON is the Hennebach Assistant Professor of Energy Policy in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. An anthropologist by training, she also publishes on corporate social responsibility in extractive industries.

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