"The papers that appear in this special issue were presented and discussed at the international workshop Labor Mobility in the Socialist World and Its Legacies, which took place at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, on 19–20 May 2016. The workshop was part of a larger project Socialism Goes Global funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, which, along with the international research center for Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, re:work, at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany also provided financial backing for the conference. The workshop was conceived as a contribution to recent pioneering efforts to map and understand the complex flows of people, technology, goods, knowledge, and capital that took place between state-socialist countries, as well as the various global engagements by these states worldwide, and by doing so, to counter the lingering conceptualization of the state-socialist era as a time of immobility and isolation. ..."

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