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NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

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The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...