Beyond the Wage

William Monteith is Lecturer in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London.Dora-Olivia Vicol is Director of the Work Rights Centre, a charity dedicated to employment justice. Philippa Williams is Reader in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London.

• Introduction: Work Beyond the Wage ~ William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa WilliamsPart One: RUPTURESChapter 1., "Shit Wages" and Side Hustles: Ordinary Working Lives in Nairobi, London and Berlin ~ Tatiana ThiemeChapter 2., The Work of Looking for Work: Surviving Without a Wage in Austerity Britain ~ Sam StrongChapter 3., Seeking Attachment in the Fissured Workplace: External Workers in the United States ~ Claudia StraussPart Two: RESIGNATIONSChapter 4., Wilful Resignations: Women, Labour and Life in Urban India ~ Asiya IslamChapter 5., ‘Be Your Own Boss’: Entrepreneurial Dreams on the Urban Margins of South Africa ~ Hannah DawsonChapter 6., Work Outside the Hamster’s Cage: Precarity and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living in Catalonia ~ Vinzenz Bäumer EscobarChapter 7., Choosing to be Unfree? The Aspirations and Constraints of Debt-bonded Brick Workers in Cambodia ~ Nithya Natarajan, Katherine Brickell, and Laurie ParsonsPart Three: STRUGGLESChapter 8., “Earning Money as the Wheels Turn Around”: Cycle-rickshaw Drivers and Wageless Work in Dhaka ~ Annemiek PrinsChapter 9., Going Gojek, or Staying Ojek? Competing Visions of Work and Economy in Jakarta’s Motorbike Taxi Industry ~ Mechthild von VacanoChapter 10., "I Voted Bolsonaro for President": Street Vending and the Crisis of Labour Representation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil ~ Mara NogueiraPart Four: POSSIBILITIESChapter 11., Extraordinary: Crisis, Charity and Care in London’s World without Work ~ Dora-Olivia VicolChapter 12., Defending the Wage: Visions of Work and Distribution in Namibia ~ E. Fouksman