Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors

pp viii-xii

Introduction: Work Beyond the Wage

pp 1-20

Part I - Ruptures

pp 21-22

1 - “Shit Wages” and Side Hustles: Ordinary Working Lives in Nairobi, London and Berlin

pp 23-44

2 - The Work of Looking for Work: Surviving Without a Wage in Austerity Britain

pp 45-70

3 - Seeking Attachment in the Fissured Workplace: External Workers in the United States

pp 71-92

Part II - Resignations

pp 93-94

4 - Wilful Resignations: Women, Labour and Life in Urban India

pp 95-114

5 - “Be Your Own Boss”: Entrepreneurial Dreams on the Urban Margins of South Africa

pp 115-138

6 - Work Outside the Hamster's Cage: Precarity and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living in Catalonia

pp 139-162

7 - Choosing to Be Unfree? The Aspirations and Constraints of Debt-bonded Brick Workers in Cambodia

pp 163-184

Part III - Struggles

pp 185-186

8 - “Earning Money as the Wheels Turn Around”: Cycle-rickshaw Drivers and Wageless Work in Dhaka

pp 187-210

9 - Going Gojek, or Staying Ojek? Competing Visions of Work and Economy in Jakarta's Motorbike Taxi Industry

pp 211-232

10 - “I Voted Bolsonaro for President”: Street Vending and the Crisis of Labour Representation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

pp 233-254

Part IV - Possibilities

pp 255-256

11 - Extra-ordinary: Crisis, Charity and Care in London's World without Work

pp 257-276

12 - Defending the Wage: Visions of Work and Distribution in Namibia

pp 277-294

Index

pp 295-302