1. Introduction
2. The Domestic Outsider: Interpreting Contradictions in the Status of Maidservants in Qing China
3. The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China
4. Labour Migration to the French Islands of the Western Indian Ocean, 1830-60
5. Relationships between Economic and Environmental Factors, and Labour Migration to Réunion, 1820-60
6. Trafficking, Slavery, Peonage: Dilemmas and Hesitations of Colonial Administrators in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia
7. Disciplining the Hill Tribes into Coolie Labour for Road Construction
8. Mediated (Im)mobility: Indian Labour Migration to Ceylon under the Kangany System (c. 1850-1940)
9. Anti-indenture as Antislavery: Early Indian Nationalism and the Trope of Slavery
10. Changing Masters in the Longue Durée: Slavery and Abolition in Egypt and the Sudan, 1798-1882
11. Abolitionism and the African Slave Trade in the Ottoman Empire (1857-1922)
12. The Abolition of Slavery and the 'New Labour Contract' in French Equatorial Africa, 1890-1914
13. The Persistence of Slavery in the Southern Red Sea Region in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
14. Sex, Money, and Modern-Day Slavery: Trafficking of Women and Children in China
15. Rural Women as Property in Zambia: The AIDS Exit
16. Child Labour and its Interaction with Adult Labour in Ivory Coast (1980-2002)
17. Trauma and Inter-Communal Relations among a Captive Population: Preliminary Findings from the Malakal PoC, South Sudan
18. The Persistence of Debt Bondage in South India: Market and Political Alliances
19. Debt Bondage and Vulnerable Work in South Indian Silk Processing
20. Indebted to Work: Bondage in Brick Kilns.