D Griffith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Griffith |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffith |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Carolina University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6103-6061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A kingdom for a horse
Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico
McGillis's points: Commercial fishing narratives of knowledge and power in the Southern United States
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico
Local Perspectives Matter: The Case of the Seasonal Fishery Closure in the Visayan Sea, Philippines
This study examines the knowledge, perceptions, and compliance of fisheries stakeholders with the seasonal fishery closure implemented in the Visayan Sea, Philippines. We interviewed 235 municipal fisheries stakeholders composed of municipal fishers, fish dryers, fish traders/fish brokers (regulated group) and local government units, Philippine National Police-Maritime Group/Philippine Coast Guard, and fish wardens (regulator group) in 12 coastal…
Migration and livelihood constellations: Assessing common themes in the face of environmental change in Somalia and among Agro‐Pastoral peoples
Research on migration has become more challenging due to at least four factors: (1) more complex migration traditions; (2) the development of migration economies that engage many types of migrants from ever more social and cultural backgrounds; (3) increasing likelihood of climate change‐driven environmental migration; and (4) increasing likelihood of conflict‐based migration in some contexts. These developments have shaken economic theories of m…
Labor in Livelihood Constellations along Coastal Plains
Coastal plain economies are dependent on seasonal, low-wage labor for tourism, fisheries, construction, and other sectors. Historically, labor in these sectors has come from multiple social and cultural backgrounds: natives, legal and undocumented immigrants, visiting mariners, students, guestworkers, etc. Anti-immigration sentiments around the world have forced undocumented immigrants further underground while increasing demand for legal guestwo…
Working Through the Pandemic: What Crises Tell Us About Economics
Crises tend to expose extremes. Following hurricanes, predatory capitalism and altruism compete with one another as people respond to and recover from the storm. War often exacerbates gender divisi
The value of reproduction: Multiple livelihoods, cultural labor, and immigrants in Iowa and North Carolina
In the US South and Midwest, early immigrant populations consisted primarily of young, Latinos recruited to work in low-wage jobs. After six or seven years, family members from Mexico and Central America began joining early arrivals, changing the character of immigrant interactions with host residents and institutions. While many natives viewed the single men as migrant workers, important for economic services, the arrival of women and children s…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of Commercial Fishermen's Perspectives on Corporate/State Response to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
A rapid ethnographic assessment conducted in 2016 engaged fishermen, their communities, and fisheries along the Gulf of Mexico coast five years after the Deepwater Horizon blowout of 2010. Intervie
Spiritual Violence in the Age of Meaningless Work
David Graeber. 2018. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. New York: Simon & Schuster. 333 pages. “What's this I hear about your TPS reports? Didn't you get the memo?”—the character Michael Bolton, Office Space
Losing Labor: Coffee, Migration, and Economic Change in Veracruz, Mexico
Based on research in four communities in Veracruz, Mexico, this article traces the cultural biography of economic change from an economy based primarily on coffee production to one based on migration, bamboo furniture manufacturing, and other livelihoods. In line with other studies, the declining importance of coffee in peasant livelihoods came about with the withdrawal of state support and neoliberal policies that encouraged a shift from quality…
The role of fishing material culture in communities’ sense of place as an added-value in management of coastal areas
Fishing communities in many places around the world are facing significant challenges due to new policies and environmental developments. While it is imperative to ensure sustainability of natural resources, many policies may overlook the contribution of fisheries to the sociocultural well-being of coastal communities. Authors address the problem of valuing the sociocultural benefits of fishing by exploring the role of fishing landscapes and trad…
Migration, Labor Scarcity, and Deforestation in Honduran Cattle Country
Large scale labor migration from Olancho, Honduras to the United States, accelerated after 1998, when Hurricane Mitch devastated the region and resulted in the United States offering Temporary Protective Status (TPS) to affected Hondurans. As growing numbers left for the United States, the loss of productive youth to migration and the development of new local economic opportunities combined to create shortages of labor available for traditional u…
Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? Mexican Labor Migration to the United States
Book Review| May 01 2015 Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? Mexican Labor Migration to the United States Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? Mexican Labor Migration to the United States. Gonzalez, Gilbert G.. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2013xxxi + 239 pp.$160.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper) David Griffith David Griffith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (1-2): 184–186. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2837929 Cite Icon…
Managing Migration, Managing Motherhood: The Moral Economy of Gendered Migration
For the past two decades, women have been migrating from Mexico to the United States on temporary work visas to pick meat from blue crabs in small coastal factories. Within a theoretical framework that argues for the relevance of a moral economic perspective to gendered migration, we examine the how participating in this migration influences migrants' families, including their abilities to produce higher‐quality lives. Specifically, we focus on t…
At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century
Book Review| December 01 2011 At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st CenturyJuravich, Tom Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009 260 pp. + CD of songs and interviews, $80.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper) David Griffith David Griffith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (4): 157–159. https://doi.org/1…
Building a Latino-engaged Action-research Collaborative: A Challenging University-community Encounter
This article discusses the experience of the Nuevo South Action-Research Collaborative, a university-community collaborative involving an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students from East Carolina University and Latino community organizations. The article describes the collaborative formation process and places it within the context of the southeast as a new destination for Latino immigration. The collaborative formation process is discus…
Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana - By David M. Burley
Finding Common Ground in the Commons: Intracultural Variation in Users' Conceptions of Coastal Fisheries Issues
Population growth in U.S. coastal areas has spawned conflicts due to increasing competition between commercial and leisure uses of coastal resources. Organizations representing different user groups routinely misrepresent the causes and severity of environmental stresses to further their political and economic agendas, often predicting extinctions of fish and shellfish and undermining balanced and reasoned management alternatives. This article il…
Immigrants Fleeing a Dying Industry: Applying Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures to the Study of Tobacco Farmworkers
Recent assaults on the tobacco industry have led to a decline in tobacco production across North Carolina, the largest tobacco producing state in the nation. Although a great deal of attention has been focused on tobacco farmers, considerably less work has been aimed at determining the effects of these changes on tobacco farmworkers, many of whom are Latinos. In this article, I discuss Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures used to estimate the…
Unions without Borders: Organizing and Enlightening Immigrant Farm Workers
Farm workers pose special problems for union organizing due to their legal status, their high rates of turnover, their employment through subcontracts, and the temporary and seasonal dimensions of farm work. Yet by organizing farm workers, unions have developed and refined strategies that point to methods of meeting the challenges of contemporary work environments in and out of agriculture. This includes organizing workers across fragmented space…
Dialogue and Engagement: Reflections on an Advanced Anthropology Training Camp in Taiwan
Working Through Change, Changing Through Work
Remembering Herb Applebaum: New Workers, Managers, Entrepreneurs
Women, Remittances, and Reproduction
Reproduction has become a central issue in the analysis of peasant households that supply migrant labor to capitalist enterprises. Many have argued that the physiological reproduction of peasantries in underdeveloped countries has been accompanied by the reproduction of their social and economic conditions. When peasant households finance reproduction, they subsidize the continued strength and expansion of capitalist enterprises that depend on th…
Managing Migration, Managing Motherhood: The Moral Economy of Gendered Migration
For the past two decades, women have been migrating from Mexico to the United States on temporary work visas to pick meat from blue crabs in small coastal factories. Within a theoretical framework that argues for the relevance of a moral economic perspective to gendered migration, we examine the how participating in this migration influences migrants' families, including their abilities to produce higher‐quality lives. Specifically, we focus on t…
Nonmarket Labor Processes in an Advanced Capitalist Economy
In advanced capitalist economies, the treatment of labor as a commodity suggests that labor's cost and availability depend on market mechanisms. Although neoclassical economic thought recognizes the influence of collective bargaining and labor legislation on the cost and availability of labor, economists generally pay scant attention to the ways informal and formal relations of power, along with myths of sexuality, ethnicity, and nationality, com…
Unions without Borders: Organizing and Enlightening Immigrant Farm Workers
Farm workers pose special problems for union organizing due to their legal status, their high rates of turnover, their employment through subcontracts, and the temporary and seasonal dimensions of farm work. Yet by organizing farm workers, unions have developed and refined strategies that point to methods of meeting the challenges of contemporary work environments in and out of agriculture. This includes organizing workers across fragmented space…
The value of reproduction: Multiple livelihoods, cultural labor, and immigrants in Iowa and North Carolina
In the US South and Midwest, early immigrant populations consisted primarily of young, Latinos recruited to work in low-wage jobs. After six or seven years, family members from Mexico and Central America began joining early arrivals, changing the character of immigrant interactions with host residents and institutions. While many natives viewed the single men as migrant workers, important for economic services, the arrival of women and children s…
The role of fishing material culture in communities’ sense of place as an added-value in management of coastal areas
Fishing communities in many places around the world are facing significant challenges due to new policies and environmental developments. While it is imperative to ensure sustainability of natural resources, many policies may overlook the contribution of fisheries to the sociocultural well-being of coastal communities. Authors address the problem of valuing the sociocultural benefits of fishing by exploring the role of fishing landscapes and trad…
Pollution, food safety, and the distribution of knowledge
Injury and therapy: Proletarianization in Puerto Rico's fisheries
Peasant fishers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean typically combine fishing with wage labor to varying degrees. Certain scholars have interpreted this as a reflection of incomplete incorporation into capitalist spheres of influence, where contradictions emerge as groups attempt to maintain economic and cultural autonomy while being subordinated to capitalist relations of production. In this article we investigate the conceptual and polit…
Applications of social science theory to fisheries management: Three examples
Funding support, and the realization by fishery managers that social science research has much to offer in the management process, have combined to create a framework for important research activity in recent years. This paper describes three projects of varying breadth, depth, and scope in which social scientific scholarship has both theoretical and applied value. The first project was a research effort in which funding first allowed for the con…
Finding Common Ground in the Commons: Intracultural Variation in Users' Conceptions of Coastal Fisheries Issues
Population growth in U.S. coastal areas has spawned conflicts due to increasing competition between commercial and leisure uses of coastal resources. Organizations representing different user groups routinely misrepresent the causes and severity of environmental stresses to further their political and economic agendas, often predicting extinctions of fish and shellfish and undermining balanced and reasoned management alternatives. This article il…
Social Organizational Obstacles to Capital Accumulation Among Returning Migrants: The British West Indies Temporary Alien Labor Program
Recent research on return migration has undermined the idea that international labor migration serves as a vehicle for economic development in labor-sending countries. This has led to the ascendance of a view of international labor migration as yet another form of exploitation of poor nations by wealthy nations, as migrants fail to accumulate capital enough to free themselves and their replacement generations from the migrant stream. This paper e…
Building a Latino-engaged Action-research Collaborative: A Challenging University-community Encounter
This article discusses the experience of the Nuevo South Action-Research Collaborative, a university-community collaborative involving an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students from East Carolina University and Latino community organizations. The article describes the collaborative formation process and places it within the context of the southeast as a new destination for Latino immigration. The collaborative formation process is discus…
Considering the Source: Testimony versus Data in Regulations Surrounding Gulf and South Atlantic Trap Fisheries
The source of a problem influences the source of information we use to address the problem. However, the source of information we use can also influence our conceptualization of the problem. Just such a paradox faces fishermen in the Gulf and South Atlantic trap fisheries. Competition and conflict among commercial trap fishermen, other types of fishermen (e.g., longliners and divers), recreational fishermen, and environmentalists occur throughout…
Labor in Livelihood Constellations along Coastal Plains
Coastal plain economies are dependent on seasonal, low-wage labor for tourism, fisheries, construction, and other sectors. Historically, labor in these sectors has come from multiple social and cultural backgrounds: natives, legal and undocumented immigrants, visiting mariners, students, guestworkers, etc. Anti-immigration sentiments around the world have forced undocumented immigrants further underground while increasing demand for legal guestwo…
Losing Labor: Coffee, Migration, and Economic Change in Veracruz, Mexico
Based on research in four communities in Veracruz, Mexico, this article traces the cultural biography of economic change from an economy based primarily on coffee production to one based on migration, bamboo furniture manufacturing, and other livelihoods. In line with other studies, the declining importance of coffee in peasant livelihoods came about with the withdrawal of state support and neoliberal policies that encouraged a shift from quality…
Immigrants Fleeing a Dying Industry: Applying Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures to the Study of Tobacco Farmworkers
Recent assaults on the tobacco industry have led to a decline in tobacco production across North Carolina, the largest tobacco producing state in the nation. Although a great deal of attention has been focused on tobacco farmers, considerably less work has been aimed at determining the effects of these changes on tobacco farmworkers, many of whom are Latinos. In this article, I discuss Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures used to estimate the…
The Impact of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act on the U.S. Poultry Industry: A Comparative Analysis
IRCA's impact on the U.S. poultry industry has been uneven across industry sectors and regions. In California, where undocumented immigrants have been present for some decades, IRCA strengthened unions in the processing sector without constricting labor supplies. In other areas of depressed local economies and high unemployment, IRCA has had little impact. Where low‐wage industrial recruitment has increased competition for unskilled workers, howe…
Migration and livelihood constellations: Assessing common themes in the face of environmental change in Somalia and among Agro‐Pastoral peoples
Research on migration has become more challenging due to at least four factors: (1) more complex migration traditions; (2) the development of migration economies that engage many types of migrants from ever more social and cultural backgrounds; (3) increasing likelihood of climate change‐driven environmental migration; and (4) increasing likelihood of conflict‐based migration in some contexts. These developments have shaken economic theories of m…
Working Through the Pandemic: What Crises Tell Us About Economics
Crises tend to expose extremes. Following hurricanes, predatory capitalism and altruism compete with one another as people respond to and recover from the storm. War often exacerbates gender divisi
Women, Remittances, and Reproduction
Reproduction has become a central issue in the analysis of peasant households that supply migrant labor to capitalist enterprises. Many have argued that the physiological reproduction of peasantries in underdeveloped countries has been accompanied by the reproduction of their social and economic conditions. When peasant households finance reproduction, they subsidize the continued strength and expansion of capitalist enterprises that depend on th…
Social Organizational Obstacles to Capital Accumulation Among Returning Migrants: The British West Indies Temporary Alien Labor Program
Recent research on return migration has undermined the idea that international labor migration serves as a vehicle for economic development in labor-sending countries. This has led to the ascendance of a view of international labor migration as yet another form of exploitation of poor nations by wealthy nations, as migrants fail to accumulate capital enough to free themselves and their replacement generations from the migrant stream. This paper e…
Nonmarket Labor Processes in an Advanced Capitalist Economy
In advanced capitalist economies, the treatment of labor as a commodity suggests that labor's cost and availability depend on market mechanisms. Although neoclassical economic thought recognizes the influence of collective bargaining and labor legislation on the cost and availability of labor, economists generally pay scant attention to the ways informal and formal relations of power, along with myths of sexuality, ethnicity, and nationality, com…
Considering the Source: Testimony versus Data in Regulations Surrounding Gulf and South Atlantic Trap Fisheries
The source of a problem influences the source of information we use to address the problem. However, the source of information we use can also influence our conceptualization of the problem. Just such a paradox faces fishermen in the Gulf and South Atlantic trap fisheries. Competition and conflict among commercial trap fishermen, other types of fishermen (e.g., longliners and divers), recreational fishermen, and environmentalists occur throughout…
The Impact of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act on the U.S. Poultry Industry: A Comparative Analysis
IRCA's impact on the U.S. poultry industry has been uneven across industry sectors and regions. In California, where undocumented immigrants have been present for some decades, IRCA strengthened unions in the processing sector without constricting labor supplies. In other areas of depressed local economies and high unemployment, IRCA has had little impact. Where low‐wage industrial recruitment has increased competition for unskilled workers, howe…
Applications of social science theory to fisheries management: Three examples
Funding support, and the realization by fishery managers that social science research has much to offer in the management process, have combined to create a framework for important research activity in recent years. This paper describes three projects of varying breadth, depth, and scope in which social scientific scholarship has both theoretical and applied value. The first project was a research effort in which funding first allowed for the con…
Injury and therapy: Proletarianization in Puerto Rico's fisheries
Peasant fishers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean typically combine fishing with wage labor to varying degrees. Certain scholars have interpreted this as a reflection of incomplete incorporation into capitalist spheres of influence, where contradictions emerge as groups attempt to maintain economic and cultural autonomy while being subordinated to capitalist relations of production. In this article we investigate the conceptual and polit…
Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. CHARLENE J. Allison, SUE‐Ellen Jacobs, and Mary A. Porter
Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Pollution, food safety, and the distribution of knowledge
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Salvage Fisheries Ethnography
The Bay Shrimpers of Texas: Rural Fishermen in. Global Economy. Robert Lee Maril. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. $35.00 hardcover, $17.95 paperback. Gulf Coast Soundings: People and Policy in the Mississippi Shrimp Industry. E. Paul Durrenberger. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. $29.95 hardcover, $17.95 paperback
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Society for the Anthropology of Work: New Book
Society for the Anthropology of Work: Journalism and Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Work: Domesticating the Wild
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A preference for amiable drunks
Roberts, Glenda S. Staying on the Line: Blue‐Collar Women in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. x + 198 pp. including appendix, notes, references, and index. $17.00 paper. de Groot, Gertan and Marlou Schrover, eds. Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. London: Taylor & Francis, 1995. ix+206 pp. including notes and index. $24.95 paper. Hamada, Tomoko and Willis E. S…
Society for the Anthropology of Work: Arensberg Award
Society for the Anthropology of Work: Voice @ Work Campaign
Society for the Anthropology of Work: Poverty in the US
Society for the Anthropology of Work: Minutes of the Executive Board Meeting
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