The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally excluded from national labor laws and regulations, thus placing them in precarious social, legal, and economic conditions in the GCC labor markets. Despite the recent growth of...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 State Meets Capital: The Making and Unmaking of a New Chinese Working Class -- 2 Marching from the Village: Women’s Struggles between Work and Family -- 3 The Social Body, the Art of Discipline and Resistance -- 4 Becoming...