Analog Labor in a Digital World: E-Waste in India and the Politics of Repair

A deep dive into electronics repair in India—and how economies of skilled labor can offer an alternative way to live with things in our material world.

Analog Labor in a Digital World explores an alternative way to live with the things in our world, by tracing the skilled repair labor that repurposes and reinvents high-tech, digital devices otherwise discarded as waste. Through a patchwork ethnography of India’s diverse used electronics industries, Julia Corwin examines the often invisible y...