Rukmini Barua is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen. Her dissertation examines the production of social space in the working-class neighborhoods of Ahmedabad.

Subho Basu was educated at Cambridge University and is an associate professor of South Asian history at McGill University in Canada. His first book, Does Class Matter: Colonial Capital Workers' Resistance in the Jute Industry in Bengal, was published by Oxford University Press. He has also co-authored books with Ali Riaz and Crispin Bates. His current work focuses on British Imperial Globalization and Indian Labor.

Durba Chattaraj is a senior fellow in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research addresses economic and cultural transformations in India in an era of globalization and is based on eighteen months of fieldwork conducted along National Highway 117, which connects the metropolis of Calcutta to rural and marginal areas in West Bengal. While most accounts of globalization in India have focused on economic growth in cities, Chattaraj's ethnographic research highlights the effects of the liberalization of India's economy along its length, and illustrates a continuum between transforming rural and urban spaces.

A distinguished professor of history and labor studies at Rutgers University, Dorothy Sue Cobble specializes in the history of twentieth-century politics, social movements, and social policy. Her books include Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements (2014), The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (2007), and The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (2004), which won the Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize. Currently she is writing on women's social justice internationalism and on US worker movements for egalitarian democracy.

Michael Goldman teaches at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in the sociology department and the Institute for Global Studies. His previous books are Privatizing Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons (Rutgers University Press, Pluto Press [UK]) and Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization (Yale University Press, Orient Longman [India], Kyoto University Press [Japan]). He is currently completing a book manuscript on the rise of a new type of global urbanism that converts cities into “global cities,” and fosters emergent forms of financialization as well as urban resistance, using Bangalore, India as a case study.

Yoshina Hurgobin is a doctoral candidate in South Asian history at Syracuse University whose focus is the Indian Ocean World. Her current research investigates connections between indentured labor's rights of citizenship and nation formation in Mauritius between 1834 and 1968. She obtained her Masters in History, Masters of Public Administration, and MPhil in History from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Siddhartha Krishnan is an environmental sociologist and historian. He is on the faculty of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru, India. He was the 2012–13 Rachel Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. His larger intellectual interests are in sociologizing environmental history and historicizing environmental sociology.

Karen Leroux is an associate professor of history at Drake University. Her principal research interests concern the histories of women, work, and education. She has previously published on the history of US women teachers' organizations and pension activism in the late nineteenth century. Her latest research brings an interest in issues of gender, class, domesticity, and migration to the history of US women's teaching abroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Kamal A. Munir is Reader in Strategy & Policy at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely in leading academic journals as well as various international magazines and newspapers. His work has been cited in a wide range of media outlets including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Guardian and CNN. He is currently researching changing work practices in the global textile production network.

Natalya Naqvi is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests focus on the political economy of the financial sector and its relation to economic development and financial crisis. She is also interested in the political economy of labor, specifically the impact of financial liberalization on the bargaining power of workers. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a commodities analyst at Barclays Capital.

Prasannan Parthasarathi is a professor of South Asian history at Boston College. He is the author of The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720–1800 (Cambridge, 2001), The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles (Oxford, 2009), and Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence 1600–1850 (Cambridge, 2011), which received the Jerry Bentley Book Prize of the World History Association. He is now working on a study of agriculture, labor, and the environment in nineteenth-century South India.

Justin Rogers-Cooper is an associate professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY (City University of New York). He teaches courses in composition, literature, and urban studies. He received his PhD with a certificate in American Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center, where he was a student fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He has published on the politics of crowds in the philosophy of Spinoza and is currently writing on the 1877 General Strike.

Dina M. Siddiqi is a researcher and writer who divides her time between New York and Dhaka, where she is Professor of Anthropology at BRAC University. Her publications, grounded in the study of Bangladesh, cover a broad spectrum: the garment industry; gender justice and non-state dispute resolution systems; and the intersections of Islam, nationalism, and feminist cultural politics. She is working on a book-length manuscript entitled Elusive Solidarities: “Muslim” Women and Transnational Feminism at Work. She is on the editorial board of Routledge's Women in Asia Publication Series and a member of the Advisory Council of the South Asian Network of Gender Activists and Trainers (SANGAT). She has extensive work experience with Bangladeshi human rights organizations, including Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) and Bangladesh Legal and Services Trust (BLAST). She obtained her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her BA from Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

Radhika Singha teaches history at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is currently a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi. Her research themes focus on the social history of crime and criminal law, identification practices and techniques. The mobilization of human resources from India for the First World War has become another, often intersecting, research track. Her publications include A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India (Oxford University Press, 1998), and articles on colonial identification and surveillance practices, law and infrastructural power, colonial travel documents, and non-combatant labor during the First World War.

Adaner Usmani is a PhD student in sociology at New York University. His dissertation examines the political economy of tax reform in the developing world. He is also working on a project that examines the conditions under which economic development tends to produce stronger or weaker labor movements.