Teri L. Caraway is the author of Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing (2007) and co-editor of Working through the Past: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective (2015). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement. Michele Ford is the author of From Migrant to Worker: The Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia (2019) and Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement (2009). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement.

'This book is not only the single best study of labor politics anywhere in Southeast Asia, but also the most empirically rich and analytically rigorous account of political mobilization and contestation over economic growth in Indonesia. Caraway and Ford challenge other scholars of Southeast Asian politics to look beyond competition among personalities and parties to the broader social forces and societal dynamics structuring politics in the region. Hats off to them for this important contribution to the literature. May the rest of us rise to the challenge!' John Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science

• 1. Introduction; 2. The street and the ballot box; 3. National and local policy struggles, 1998–2008; 4. Shifting to offense; 5. Local executive races; 6. Legislative contests; 7. Building a working-class constituency; 8. Conclusion.

Teri L. Caraway is the author of Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing (2007) and co-editor of Working through the Past: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective (2015). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement. Michele Ford is the author of From Migrant to Worker: The Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia (2019) and Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement (2009). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement.

'This book is not only the single best study of labor politics anywhere in Southeast Asia, but also the most empirically rich and analytically rigorous account of political mobilization and contestation over economic growth in Indonesia. Caraway and Ford challenge other scholars of Southeast Asian politics to look beyond competition among personalities and parties to the broader social forces and societal dynamics structuring politics in the region. Hats off to them for this important contribution to the literature. May the rest of us rise to the challenge!' John Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science

• 1. Introduction; 2. The street and the ballot box; 3. National and local policy struggles, 1998–2008; 4. Shifting to offense; 5. Local executive races; 6. Legislative contests; 7. Building a working-class constituency; 8. Conclusion.