Asian Labor Futures
Asian Labor Futures is about reimagining labor and labor's power and redefining what the futures of work mean from the standpoint of workers themselves. It is grounded in what I call “other-than-expert” knowledge.
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Reclaiming Cultural Work (opens the original)
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(Picture: Sunagawa #5 by Nakamura Hiroshi) Dear friends, It has been almost two months since my last post! Summer was largely consumed by full-time parenting. Raising kids within a nuclear family in the US, where childcare support is mainly available as a commodity, makes daily life feel like an endless juggling act. Yet, amid the everyday chaos, several threads of thought began to weave together. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been immersed in a research project that unexpectedly reconnected me
The Unglamorous Labor of Movement Building (opens the original)
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(Photo by Shwetha Shankar on Unsplash ) Dear friends, July has been one of the most eventful months of the year. I travelled to Southeast Asia to attend a partner-led writing retreat before joining my colleagues in Bangkok to host the 2nd Regional Networking Conference, bringing together platform worker organizations and civil society from across Asia. Now back home in the US, I’m taking time to process the connections, exchanges, and insights from these two gatherings. Having worked in relative
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