“A powerful account of the operations of caste and race capitalism that produces hierarchies among laborers on a global scale. Arjun Shankar brilliantly exposes the plight of old and new laboring outcaste communities.”—Shailaja Paik, author of The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India
“Race, Caste, Labor is a riveting read. Its page-turning provocation—that today’s global order can only be understood by analyzing race and caste—will challenge and inspire scholars and students of racial capitalism who want to imagine and build a free world.”—Quito J. Swan, author of Born a Sufferah: Dancehall Music’s Insurgent Soundscapes
“Shankar makes a highly accessible and dynamic contribution to the growing conversation on global race and caste. He offers us a compelling vision of liberation on multiple fronts—and across entwined geographies—in a moment of planetary reckoning.”—Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Presidential Chair in Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies, University of California, Irvine
“In this urgent, careful, and very readable book, Shankar details how histories of labor, caste, and race are entwined in ways that generate new solidarities. Refusing exceptionalisms of both race and caste, the narratives herein bring far-flung working people’s struggles in relation in surprising ways. This is the book we have been waiting for.”—Sharad Chari, author of Apartheid Remains and Beverley Ditsie's Fearless Speech
