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 …

Modern slavery is a persistent global practice, with an estimated 50 million people trapped
in one of its many forms today. In the last decade, attention has shifted to how business …

Crowdwork is a type of work performed remotely on on-line platforms. It emerged in the
second half of the 2000s with the growth of the internet and the need to have human input …

This paper explores the relevance of the autonomy of migration approach for understanding
the role of citizenship in the sovereign control of mobility. There is an insurgent configuration …

Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the
emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the …

In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines
the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work …

By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India and on the adjacent theoretical literature,
Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most …

The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from
Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs …

Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the
organization of production, situating production within a social context. Starting with the …