Alessandra Mezzadri is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS. She is the author of The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments 'Made in India'.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction: Marx's Field as Our Global Present, Alessandra Mezzadri; Chapter Two Into the Field with Marx: Some Observations on Researching Class, Henry Bernstein; Chapter Three Marx's Merchants' Capital: Researching Agrarian Markets in Contemporary India, Barbara Harriss-White; Chapter Four The Ties That Divide: Marx's Fractions of Capital and Class Analysis in/ for the Global South, Muhammad Ali Jan; Chapter Five Marx in the Sweatshop: Exploitation and Social Reproduction in a Garment Factory Called India, Alessandra Mezzadri; Chapter Six Thinking about Capital and Class in the Gulf Arab States, Adam Hanieh; Chapter Seven Marx on the Bourse: Coffee and the Intersecting/Integrated Circuits of Capital, Susan Newman; Chapter Eight Learning Marx by Doing: Class Analysis in an Emerging Zone of Global Horticulture, Benjamin Selwyn; Chapter Nine Understanding Labour Relations and Struggles in India through Marx's Method, Satoshi Miyamura; Chapter Ten Investigating Class Relations in Rural South Africa: Marx's 'Rich Totality of Many Determinations', Farai Mtero, Brittany Bunce, Ben Cousins, Alex Dubb and Donna Hornby; Chapter Eleven From Marx's 'Double Freedom' to 'Degrees of Unfreedom': Methodological Insights from the Study of Uzbekistan's Agrarian Labour, Lorena Lombardozzi; Chapter Twelve The Labour Process and Health through the Lens of Marx's Historical Materialism, Tania Toffanin; Chapter Thirteen Marx and the Poor's Nourishment: Diets in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, Sara Stevano; Chapter Fourteen Marx In Utero: A Workers' Inquiry of the In/Visible Labours of Reproduction in the Surrogacy Industry, Sigrid Vertommen; Chapter Fifteen Marx, the Chief, the Prisoner and the Refugee, Gavin Capps, Genevieve LeBaron and Paolo Novak in Conversation with Alessandra Mezzadri; Chapter Sixteen Postcolonial Marxism and the 'Cyber-Field' in COVID Times: On Labour Becoming 'Working Class', Subir Sinha; Notes on Contributors; Index.