Studying labour in Southeast Asia / Ratna Saptari and Rebecca Elmhirst -- Labour dynamics in the plantation and mining sectors in Southeast Asia, 1840-1950 / Amarjit Kaur -- Constructing child labour / Benjamin White -- Trade unions in Vietnam in historical perspective / Irene Nrlund -- Local politics and labour relations in the Philippines / Chan Fong Yin and Philip F. Kelly -- Are they incompatible? Modern farming and non-market labour in the northern Philippine uplands / Edsel E. Sajor -- From resource managers to secondary farm hands / Bernadette P. Resurreccion -- Labour practices outside the factory / Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander -- Transforming industrial relations / Peter Wad -- Labour relations and mobility in provincial Thailand / Daniel Arghiros -- Labour relations in a changing rural world / Jonathan Rigg -- Labour restructuring in Vietnam since the economic reform / Xavier Oudin -- Domestic workers and transnational migration / Shirlena Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Richard T. Jackson -- Labouring communities / Erwiza Erman -- Labour politics in migrant communities / Rebecca Elmhirst.