Introduction -- Job, many lives -- Assembling a labor market -- Mediators unpacked -- Firms : seeing like a call center -- The state : making a middle path -- Labor : seeking the Philippine dream -- Three archetypes -- Responsible women -- Restless gays -- Rooted men -- Conclusion -- Gone baby gone -- The relativity of work -- Appendix: An ethnographic narrative -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.
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