"Studies on free trade zones (FTZ) work contend that employment at transnational factories does not empower women in the long term. While I agreed that the economic and social power attained seem to diminish once women stop working, I wondered what happened to the oppositional consciousness, new...

This dissertation explores the ways in which genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds, rice seeds, and organic cotton seeds in Telangana, India set farmers on diverging economic, environmental, and social trajectories. GM cotton, a cash crop sold under hundreds of different brand names by private...

This contribution to Political Anthropology, Migration Research, and Postcolonial Studies fills a gap in the hitherto under-represented scholarship on the settler society of the Andaman Islands, called Mini-India. The main actors of the book are migrants from criminalised, low-class, low-caste,...

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getulio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city's economy, and consequently its citizen's lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest...

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...

Introduction -- The birth and development of export agriculture in the San Quintín Valley -- Transnational agribusiness, local growers, and discontents -- Labor recruitment : from local to transnational systems of labor contracting -- "They want first-class workers with third world wages" : the...