Andrea Komlosy, Ph.D. (1984), University of Vienna, is a professor at the Department for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, where she is one of the Global History and Global Studies program coordinators. She has published widely on work and labor, migration, borders and uneven development.

Goran Music, Ph.D. (2016), European University Institute, is a postdoctoral associated researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz. His fields of interest include global labor history, the comparative history of workers under state socialism, and the everyday history of socialist Yugoslavia.

This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies placing labor at the centre of their analysis. It represents an important contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labour history.