• Introduction: labour in transport: histories from the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America), c.1750 to 1950 Stefano Bellucci, Larissa Rosa Corrêa, Jan-Georg Deutsch and Chitra Joshi; 1. Contract, work and resistance: boatmen in early colonial eastern India, 1760s–1850s Nitin Sinha; 2. Getting away with murder: the wrongful deaths of Lascars aboard the Union in 1802 James W. Frey; 3. Holy rollers: monasteries, Lamas, and the unseen transport of Chinese-Russian trade, 1850–1911 Devon Dear; 4. Empire on their backs: coolies in the Eastern borderlands of the British Raj Lipokmar Dzüvichü; 5. Free and unfree labour and ethnic conflicts in the Brazilian transport work: Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century Paulo Cruz Terra; 6. Rickshaws and Filipinos: transnational meanings of technology and labour in American-occupied Manila Michael D. Pante; 7. The first great railway strike: a new perspective on the early labour movement in São Paulo Guilherme Grandi; 8. Motor transportation, trade unionism and the culture of work in colonial Ghana Jennifer Hart; 9. 'Human telephone lines': flag post mail relay runners in British Southern Cameroon (1916–1955) and the establishment of a modern communications network Walter Gam Nkwi and Mirjam de Bruijn.

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