Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parre�nas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? : organizing child care providers in the wake of welfare reform / Ellen Reese -- Sex and (evacuation from) the city : the moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki Ross -- Caring everywhere / Viviana Zelizer -- More intimate unions / Dorothy Sue Cobble.

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