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Introduction -- Take This Job and . . . -- Labor Markets: The Neoclassical Dogma -- Work Is Hell -- The Injuries of Class -- Panopticon -- A Divided Working Class -- The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers -- A Working-Class Revolt? Pandemic, Depression, and Protest in the United States -- Waging Class Struggle: From Principles to Practice.

Contents are grouped under the headings: Ideology and values; Cases and conflicts; Economic dimensions.

Introduction -- Shaping the space : movement, stories, and structure -- A roadology : intentional acts of movement and transformation -- Neak Ta : articulating the boundaries -- The cham : history, memory, and practice -- Merit in motion : temple building and other powerful acts -- Conclusion.

In a rapidly modernising Cambodia, dance parties that accompany large temple celebrations and weddings have become violent arenas where young men fight with fists and knives beyond police control. In 2010, this led to a ban on dance parties during the Pchuṃ Biṇḍ celebration. This paper concerns an ad hoc bribe to lift the ban that was collected in the manner of a meritorious temple offering. I suggest that the flexible parameters of Buddhist merit-making in this ritualised context both reconfigured the bribe and palpably brought expectations of moral conduct into the energetically charged dancing arena - but only momentarily. (J Southeast Asian Stud/GIGA)