0 Preface
Part 1: Getting Up, Brushing Up, and Going In
1 Introduction (Del A. Maticic and Jordan Rogers)
2 The Politics of Pesto: Making Metaphor Work (Moretum) (Tom Geue)
3 Wandering Workers: Mobility and Skills in the Roman World (Claire Holleran)
4 Working, Learning, and Living Environments: The View from Dolium Repairs (Caroline Cheung)
Part 2: Showing Up
5 Looking at the Laboring: Fictions, 'Realities', and a Culture of Competence (Ann Kuttner)
6 Rapacious and Chatty, Deceitful and Memorable: Finding Non-Elite Stereotypes of Roman Merchants (Jane Sancinito)
7 Working Relationships in Roman Asia Minor (Rebecca Sausville)
8 Labor as Religio in Imperial Rome: the Fabri Tignarii Relief (Jordan Rogers)
Part 3: Escaping, Commuting, and Passing Out
9 The Flight of a Literary Assistant and an Unnamed operarius: Between Professional Responsibility and Personal Duty (Nicole Giannella)
10 Arachne and the Metamorphosis of Labor (Marco Formisano)
11 Libitina's Laborers: praeficae and the Origins of the Roman Funerary Trade (John Bodel)
12 The Vergilian Work of Life (Del A. Maticic).