Labor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be delivered. Labor, though, is a uniquely important resource for the very simple reason that working people have sentience.

Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementIntroductionChapter 1 – A Resource Unlike Any OtherLabor as ObjectLabor as SubjectSummaryChapter 2 – Labor in Global ContextMoving OnRural to urban migrationIntra-continental migrationInter-continental migrationGrowing in PlaceSummaryChapter 3 – Globalization and LaborFDI’s Implications for LaborGPNs and Labor as Object and SubjectWaste, Global Destruction Networks, and LaborSummaryChapter 4 – Neoliberalism and Working PrecariouslyNeoliberalism and Precarious WorkForms of Precarity and Their Present DynamicsSummaryChapter 5 – From Drudge Work to Emancipated Workers?Laboring in the Old EconomyOn the Swing to the Cancer in the Bush  Iron Ore Mining in Western AustraliaSweet Work? – Cocoa Plantation Workers in West AfricaFishy Business – Forced Labor in the Seafood IndustrySummaryChapter 6 – Meet the New Economy – Same as the Old Economy?Laboring in the New EconomyChips off the Old (Economy) Block?Call Centers – Dark Satanic Mills of the New Economy?Ghost Workers of the New EconomySummaryChapter 7 – Workers Fight BackWorkers Coming TogetherOrganizing in the Age of PrecaritySummaryChapter 8 – Concluding ThoughtsBibliography