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Shon Faye places trans politics in Britain within healthcare, housing, labor, class, and punitive systems, making material life central to trans justice.

Through transnational interviews, Sarah T. Roberts reveals commercial content moderation: the automation and safety visible on platforms rely on secret, quantified, and outsourced human judgment.

Fourteen essays ask how trans life reshapes Marxist accounts of work, transition, care, class, and social reproduction - and where this deliberately diverse anthology leaves its questions unresolved.

Kate Crawford maps AI through minerals, energy, hidden labor, training data, classification, and state surveillance, revealing the extraction and concentrated power beneath machine intelligence.

Mar Hicks traces how British institutions classified women’s computing expertise as low-status labor, then built a prestigious field that excluded the workers on whom it depended.

Grace Chang traces how immigration policy, welfare reform, and global capital create a low-paid, stigmatized, yet socially essential workforce of immigrant women.

Cynthia Enloe links militarism to corporate supply chains, national security rhetoric, consumer culture, prisons, and global labor.

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing follows matsutake ecology and trade to show how war, migration, and capital shape precarious livelihoods - and how life persists through damaged landscapes.

Centered on migrant Filipino domestic workers, Parreñas develops the international division of reproductive labor and offers a foundational account of global care chains, transnational families, and migrant women's labor.

Cynthia Enloe makes international politics visible through women working in tourism, domestic labor, diplomacy, military bases, and export economies.

Anne Allison’s ethnography follows post-bubble stagnation, irregular work, lonely death, and post-Fukushima life to examine what happens when stable family and male-breadwinner institutions unravel.

Janet Abbate traces the historical shift from women’s high participation in computing work to the formation of masculinized professional identity.

A feminist collection spanning Western and non-Western settings that asks when migration enables agency and when it reorganizes labor, identity, and control.

Using historical trends, surveys, and interviews, Wei-hsin Yu explains how work institutions and care responsibilities compound gender inequality across women’s lives in Japan and Taiwan.

Nicole Constable centers Filipina migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, showing how recruitment, employment, live-in rules, resistance, and negotiation shape care labor in an Asian global city.

This anthology reframes globalization through women's migration, domestic work, sex work, and care deficits, showing how household convenience in wealthy countries depends on emotional and bodily labor from the Global South.

Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States, revealing the brutal reality of low-wage labor and the struggle for survival.

Bridget Anderson analyzes how migrant domestic labor is organized by employers, states, and border regimes, exposing the race, class, gender, and citizenship politics behind household work.

Cynthia Enloe traces militarization through consumer culture, military labor, family life, and nationalism, asking how gender makes these ties seem ordinary.

Naomi Klein's seminal manifesto against corporate globalization analyzes the shift from manufacturing products to marketing brands, exposing the hidden costs of consumer culture on labor rights, public space, and individual choice.

Edited by Daniel James and John D. French, nine labor histories use archives and oral testimony to reconstruct women workers’ factory lives, household obligations, organizing, and gendered citizenship across five Latin American countries.

A 1997 anthology maps law, labor, care, and political organizing across ten African country cases - and opens a debate about how African feminisms are defined.

Across six cases in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile, Lynn Stephen examines how women turn survival needs into collective politics - and how alliances can enable yet constrain feminist claims.

Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula trace how Cuba’s revolution changed women’s education, health, work and family life - and why state-backed equality did not end patriarchy or unpaid care.

Judy Wajcman uses factories, housework, reproductive technology, and urban space to show that gender shapes technology while machines, skills, and infrastructure stabilize power.