Work Out of Place : Historical Legacies, Present Predicaments and Future Trends.

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

This series will trace at the example of work the historical connections between regions and critically engage with the idea of the North Atlantic World as normal and the rest as exceptional. The aim is to publish studies that change focus back and forth from the intimacy and complexity of relationships in specific places and their connections to distant places and long-term processes of change thereby looking beyond locality and region.

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