Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor 1
5. Chapter One Fragmented Solidarity: Political Violence and Neoliberalism in Colombia 30
6. Chapter Two Labor in Place/Capitalism in Space: The Making and Unmaking of a Local Working Class on Maine’s “Paper Plantation” 77
7. Chapter Three Flexible Labor/Flexible Housing: The Rescaling of Mumbai into a Global Financial Center and the Fate of its Working Class 123
8. Chapter Four Structures without Soul and Immediate Struggles: Rethinking Militant Particularism in Contemporary Spain 167
9. Chapter Five The Saturn Automobile Plant and the Long Dispossession of US Autoworkers 203
10. Chapter Six “Worthless Poles” and Other Dispossessions: Toward an Anthropology of Labor in Post- Communist Central and Eastern Europe 250
11. Contributors 288
12. Index 290