Prologue: Global drama, Greek tragedy -- Crisis of debt and dignity -- The city and its people -- Assault without warning -- Days of reckoning -- Solidarity to the rescue -- The leisurely in spite of themselves -- Theory of crisis as liminality -- Epilogue: Resilience and praxis.

Introduction: new service workers in the global economy -- Hidden informality in multinational technology firms -- Housekeepers: creating modern India from the periphery -- Model entrepreneurs/violent offenders : corporate taxi drivers at crossroads -- Risk managers at risk : private security...

"This ethnography examines questions of value, labor, and morality underlining the translocal waste networks in Spring District, Vietnam. Engaging with waste as an economic category of global significance, this book provides an account of migrant laborers' complex negotiations with political...

Introduction : 'on our own terms' : indigenous traders in the global economy -- Indigenous institutions regulating 'popular' markets -- Kinship networks as chains of supply and distribution -- The Chinese connection : an interstitial global economy 'under the radar of the -- Law' -- Revolving...