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Franco Galdini is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), University of Birmingham.Eugenia Pesci is PhD candidate and researcher in the LIFEMAKE project at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. She previously worked as a Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher in the Horizon 2020-funded project MARKETS and as a research fellow, University of Bologna.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking Labour, Gender, and Precarity in Central Asia.- Part I: Rural and Migrant Central Asia.- Chapter 2: Rise of the Surplus Population: Land Decollectivisation, Class Stratification, and Labor Precarisation in Uzbekistan.- Chapter 3: The Changing Landscape of Rural Work: Navigating New Employers and Resource Enclosures in Samarkand Region, Uzbekistan.- Chapter 4: Cultivating Social Reproduction: Women’s Labour in the Kitchen Garden and Rural Precarity in Tajikistan.- Chapter 5: Political Economies of the Womb: Migration, Surrogacy, and Precarious Labour between Central Asia and Georgia.- Political Economies of the Womb: Migration, Surrogacy, and Precarious Labour between Central Asia and Georgia.- Chapter 6: Beyond Neoliberalism and Precarity: Entrepreneurial Subjectivities at the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.- Chapter 7: (Re)producing Precarious Lives: Female Day Labourers at Kyrgyzstan’s Birzha.- Chapter 8: Inhabiting Ugiloy’s Skin: Housewifisation and Precarious Labour in Uzbekistan.- Chapter 9: Inhabiting Ugiloy’s Skin: Housewifisation and Precarious Labour in Uzbekistan.