Adam’s research sits at the intersection of economic anthropology and semiotic anthropology. His work explores infrastructural development, ecologies of labor, emergent technologies, and social inequality. He is currently drafting a manuscript on the Indian construction industry which takes the construction site as a complex regime of exploitation, jointly crafted by global, regional, and local actors. It tracks the material and semiotic dimensions of worker precarity produced on the construction site and the techniques workers deploy to navigate these dynamics. His current research project explores how the emergence of algorithmic credit-scoring systems is reshaping debt relations and livelihoods in India. Hailed as a way of extending credit to India’s un- and underbanked populations, algorithmic credit-scoring reshapes networks of social interdependence as personal data, kinship ties, and social networks become forms of collateral in relations of debt. His work has been featured in Anthropological Quarterly, Social Studies of Science, Anthropology of Work Review, and New Media and Society.