Labour

Since the 1980s, many Southeast Asian agricultural regions have been transformed into industrial hubs for delocalized Western factories, in the frame of a broad turn of the local nation-states to neoliberal or highly deregulated market economies. Contrary to Western countries and the first generation of Asian NIEs, labour precarization in Southeast Asia informed industrialization since its take off, resulting in a process of semi-industrialization and semi-proletarianization.

The project offers a de-colonised approach to work-related inequality under the current neoliberal conditions through the bottom-up study of meaningful marginal enclaves such as industrial parks, extractive sites, migrants´ settlements and forest villages.