This discussion responds to the papers presented in the panel 'Precarity of labour in the resource extraction industries'.
Paper long abstract:
This discussion responds to the papers presented in the panel 'Precarity of labour in the resource extraction industries'. I shall comment on the common themes that link these papers, and the future directions for researching labour in the extractive industries, and continuities and departures from an earlier set of ethnographies that were concerned with labouring in large-scale mines.