Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and...

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...

This Article uses an ethnographic case study to challenge the conventional wisdom in international labor law that formality – including formal contracts and special migration programs – always produces better jobs for transnational migrant workers than informality. Interviews with informal...