Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Work Out of Place / Sarkar, Mahua -- Men do not gather grapes from thorns: Indentured Labor, Guestworkers, and the Failure of Regulation / Hahamovitch, Cindy -- Colonial Capitalism and Javanese Transcolonial Labor Migration in insular Asia / Houben, Vincent -- Between Sozialismus and Socialismo: African workers and public authority in the German Democratic Republic / Allina, Eric -- The Moped Diaries: Remittances in the Czechoslovak- Vietnamese Labor Migration Scheme -- Moveable Migrants, Laboring Lives: Making Refugees 'Useful' in Post-Colonial India / Sengupta, Anwesha -- Unfree Labour, Migration and Social Transformation in Neoliberal Capitalism / Castles, Stephen -- From "out-of-plan worker" to the "floating mass": Informal Work in the history of the PRC / Li, Ju -- Labor: the Hidden Factor behind Mass Incarceration USA - and Decarceration? / Martin, William G. -- What is Work? Who is a Worker? / Sarkar, Mahua -- Conclusion / Hahamovitch, Cindy -- List of Contributors -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects |