Informal Work in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe - Sibylle Marti and Christof Dejung NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR: INFORMAL WORK AT THE BEGINNING OF LABOR FORMALIZATION When the State Arrived in the Rural Workshop: Laws and Taxes for Home Industries in Austrian Galicia, 1859–1914 - Corinne Geering Ambivalences of (In)Formality: Prospects, Problems, and Pitfalls of Investigating “Informal Work” in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - Sigrid Wadauer The Political Economy of Informal Crafting Commerce in Helsinki at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Leena Enbom THE INTERWAR YEARS: INFORMAL WORK IN TIMES OF CRISES Moving Between Formal and Informal Labor in Greek Cities, ca. 1890–1940 - Leda Papastefanaki Informal Labor and the “Extra Waiter” in Inter-War Britain - David Cowan Women’s “Return” to the Household? Struggles over the Regulation of Industrial Homework in Interwar Austria - Elisabeth Luif Distinguishing Between Workers, Establishing Hierarchies: Categorizing Farm and other Workers in Disputes over Unemployment Insurance in Austria, 1920–1938 - Jessica Richter THE POST-WAR PERIOD: INFORMAL WORK BETWEEN INDUSTRIALIZATION, MODERNIZATION AND BOOM The Vulnerable Lives of “Unemployment” in Portugal’s Estado Novo Dictatorship, ca. 1930–1960 - Elisa Lopes da Silva Rethinking Precarity: Labor, Law, and the Literary Imagination on the Margins of Europe, Late 1940–1960s - Adrian Grama Laboring in the Twilight Zone: Contract Workers and Temporary Employees in Mid-Twentieth-Century (West) Germany - Anna Elisabeth Keim “Agriculture is Female”: Informality, Exploitation, and Modernization in the Lives of Italian Rural Women, 1950–1970 - Eloisa Betti Informal Work and Labor Struggle: Domestic Workers’ Private and Public Conflicts during the Franco Era in Spain, 1960–1975 - Diego Latorre Manglano The Gender of Informality: Intimate Labors in Transnational Perspective during the Century of Labor Formalization - Eileen Boris Chapter Abstracts List of Contributors Map and Tables Index