Alleged shortages at home, certain surpluses abroad : North American temporary worker programs -- Occupations abandoned, workers displaced : seasonal labor before and after H-2 -- From beauty to truth -- Aspects of the machete -- Guests as hosts : Jamaicans in the tourist industry -- When owls...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On edge : (un)employment and the bad reputation of Limoges's outer city -- Longing for yesterday : the social uses of nostalgia in a climate of job insecurity -- Jobs for at-risk youth : state intervention, solidarite, and the fight against exclusion -- Burning...

Introduction -- Job, many lives -- Assembling a labor market -- Mediators unpacked -- Firms : seeing like a call center -- The state : making a middle path -- Labor : seeking the Philippine dream -- Three archetypes -- Responsible women -- Restless gays -- Rooted men -- Conclusion -- Gone baby...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Methodology: (Feminist) Ethnography in Crisis -- Chapter 3: Navigating Through Shocks: Mīṉavar of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry -- Chapter 4: Flooding Urbanity: Narratives from Safai Karamcharis of Guwahati, Assam -- Chapter 5: Living Among Waste:...