Contents
Foreword
Thomas G. Andrews
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Fragility of Work
Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette
Part One. The Ends of Work
Chapter One. Exhaustion and Endurance in Sick Landscapes: Cheap Tea and the Work of Monoculture in the Dooars, India
Sarah Besky
Chapter Two. The Concentration of Killing: Soy, Labor, and the Long Green Revolution
Kregg Hetherington
Chapter Three. Making Monotony: Bedsores and Other Signs of an Overworked Hog
Alex Blanchette
Part Two. Labor Struggles
Chapter Four. The Job of Finding Food Is a Joke: Orangutan Rehabilitation, Work, Subsistence, and Social Relations
Juno Salazar Parreñas
Chapter Five. The Heat of Work: Dissipation, Solidarity, and Kidney Disease in Nicaragua
Alex Nading
Chapter Six. Metabolic Relations: Korean Red Ginseng and the Ecologies of Modern Life
Eleana Kim
Chapter Seven. How Guinea Pigs Work: Figurations and Gastro-Politics in Peru
María Elena García
Chapter Eight. Industrial Materials: Labor, Landscapes, and the Industrial Honeybee
Jake Kosek
Part Three. Futures of Work
Chapter Nine. Cultural Analysis of Microbial Worlds
John Hartigan Jr.
Chapter Ten. Rhapsody in the Forest: Wild Mushrooms and the Multispecies Multitude
Shiho Satsuka
Chapter Eleven. Kamadhenu's Last Stand: On Animal Refusal to Work
Naisargi N. Dave
References
Contributors
Index