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Shon Faye argues that trans justice is inseparable from healthcare, housing, work, sex work, prison, migration, class, and social 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.

This anthology joins transgender studies with Marxist theory to analyze capitalism, social reproduction, labor, embodiment, and liberation.

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

Marie Hicks rewrites the history of British computerization by showing how women’s computing labor was demoted from core expertise into low-paid, low-status work.

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 Tsing follows matsutake supply chains to study survival, cooperation, and non-linear ecological relations in capitalist ruins.

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.

Wei-hsin Yu compares half a century of women’s employment in Japan and Taiwan, showing why organizational arrangements, industrial policy, and life-course institutions matter beyond shared patriarchal culture.

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 how women's lives are militarized through bases, nationalism, labor, marriage, and peacekeeping.

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.

This landmark anthology grounds African feminist politics in struggles over land, work, food, health, citizenship, and state power across ten national contexts.

Nine labor histories use archives and oral testimony to reconstruct Latin American women workers’ factory lives, household obligations, organizing, and gendered citizenship.

A comparative account of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile.

A study of women in socialist Cuba, examining revolution, sexuality, work, family, and state gender policy.

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