Part I: Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank.
Chapter 1: The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development.
Chapter 2: The Road to Achieving Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank.
Chapter 3: Address to the World Bank Sociological Group.
Chapter 4: Working Together: Broadening the World Bank's Development Paradigm.
Chapter 5: Social Analysis in the World Bank.
Chapter 6: Resettlement, Impoverishment, and Development's Pathologies.
Chapter 7: The Direct and Major Operational Relevance of Social Assessments.
Chapter 9: Writing New Rules and Changing Old Practices.
Part II: Social Development Work - Live.
Chapter 9: Malinowski Award Lecture 1996 Social Organization and Development Anthropology.
Chapter 10: Anthropology at Work.
Chapter 11: Social Development (excerpts from her 2004 Oral History).
Chapter 12: Putting People First in Practice: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program.
Chapter 13: The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples.
Chapter 14: The Need for Social Research and the Broadening of CGIAR's Paradigm.
Chapter 15: Fighting Poverty, Combatting Social Exclusion.
Part III: Involuntary Resettlement.
Chapter 16: The Risk and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations.
Chapter 17: Muddy Waters: Inside The World Bank As It Struggled With The Narmada Irrigation And Resettlement Projects, Western India.
Chapter 18: Performance in Resettlement.
Chapter 19: From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists has Changed in India's Development in the last Seventy Years.
Chapter 20: Social Assessment and Resettlement Policies and Practice in China: Contributions by Michael Cernea to Development in China.
Part IV: Retrospective & Outlook.
Chapter 21: A Retrospective: MICHAEL M. CERNEA (1934).