academic field, global labour studies seeks to understand how different forms of employment sustain uneven patterns of … accessible book explores these structures and forces that shape lives across the world. Maintaining a consistent focus on … networks, changing labour market dynamics, forced labour, contemporary migration trends and new labour organizations. This …

use labour as our lens in this volume. The resulting micro-spatial history of labour addresses the management and … recruitment of labour, its voluntary and coerced spatial mobility, its political perception and representation and the workers …Preface by Anne Gerritsen and Christian G. De Vito -- 1. Micro-Spatial Histories of Labour: Towards a New Global …