The ILO is presently attempting to spearhead a 'global alliance against forced labour'. This
article surveys the ILO approach to forced labour, recent theoretical debates regarding …

How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that
investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in …

Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society
and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the …

The series incorporates work on urbanisation and urbanism in South Asia from diverse
perspectives, including, but not being limited to, sociology, anthropology, geography, social …

Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining
solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same …

This review examines the ambiguous condition of unfree labor in modern, Fordist, or
postindustrial systems of exploitation. Unfree labor is reviewed across two multidisciplinary …

Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization
of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine …

'Men and Masculinities in South India'aims to increase understanding of gender within South
Asia and especially South Asian masculinities, a topic whose analysis and ethnographising …

This book makes use of interesting case studies and photographs to describe everyday life
in a squatter settlement in Delhi. The book helps to understand the marital experiences of …

The economic enclaves that are being built across South India would appear to exemplify
what Aihwa Ong has called 'neoliberalism as exception'. Drawing on fieldwork in and …