Dr. Aurelie Charles is lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Bath.

"Aurelie Charles's new book is a major new contribution to social economics, tying together recent conceptual developments related to capabilities, subjective well-being, identities and norms with original empirical research on maquiladora workers in post-NAFTA Mexico. This is the sort of analytically-grounded yet realistically-engaged research to which all social and development economists should be aspiring." - Martha Starr, associate professor of Economics at American University

• Introduction * Part I. Individual Well-being: current debate of thoughts * Chapter 1. Capability Approach vs. Happiness Approach * 1.1. Introduction * 1.2. Capability Approach: Theoretical Settings: Empirical works relating to the CA * 1.3. Happiness Approach: Utilitarian tradition: Current debate * 1.4. Conclusion * Chapter 2. Identity Approach * 2.1. Introduction *2.2. Identity, norms and ideals * 2.3. Multiple identities * 2.4. Conclusion * Part II. E-mapping and Entitlement Failures * Chapter 3. Exchange Entitlement mapping * 3.1. Introduction * 3.2. Exchange Entitlement mapping under the Capability Approach * 3.3. Endowments: commodities and achieved functionings * 3.4. Conclusion * Chapter 4. External Shocks on E-mapping * 4.1. Introduction * 4.2. Interdependent entitlements * 4.3. External Shocks and Entitlement failures * 4.4. Conclusion * Part III. Case study: the identity of maquiladora workers * Chapter 5. Social entitlements * 5.1. Introduction * 5.2. The Makings of the Mexican Culture * 5.3. Current Picture of Mexican Society * 5.4. Household survey on Perceived Entitlements * 5.5. Conclusion * Chapter 6. Economic entitlements * 6.1. Introduction * 6.2. Fairness, Norms and the Marginal Cost of Labour * 6.3. Trends in maquiladora labour market * 6.4. Contentious Implication * 6.5. Conclusion