Moveable Migrants, Laboring Lives: Making Refugees ‘Useful’ in Post-Colonial India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction: Work Out of Place 1
5. Men do not gather grapes from thorns: Indentured Labor, Guestworkers, and the Failure of Regulation 23
6. Colonial Capitalism and Javanese Transcolonial Labor Migration in insular Asia 55
7. Between Sozialismus and Socialismo: African workers and public authority in the German Democratic Republic 77
8. The Moped Diaries: Remittances in the Czechoslovak- Vietnamese Labor Migration Scheme 101
9. Moveable Migrants, Laboring Lives: Making Refugees ‘Useful’ in Post-Colonial India 121
10. Unfree Labour, Migration and Social Transformation in Neoliberal Capitalism 149
11. From “out-of-plan worker” to the “floating mass”: Informal Work in the history of the PRC 173
12. Labor: the Hidden Factor behind Mass Incarceration USA – and Decarceration? 197
13. What is Work? Who is a Worker? 219
14. Conclusion 237
15. List of Contributors 245
16. Index of Places 249
17. Index of Subjects 251