Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures – Continent of Resistance Podcast

In our new season of the Continent of Resistance podcast, Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures, Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn and Kevin Lin are joined by Nash Tysmans to explore how the terrain of labor struggle is shifting across Asia—from industrial to service-oriented and informal work—and how new forms of organizing are emerging in response.

We begin with the frustrations we face as organizers, activists, and workers, and end by imagining what labor’s future could look like. Each episode leans into curiosity, closing with questions rather than certainties.

We would like to thank Bayley Boecker for editing the series and voicing the episode introductions.

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Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn is the contributing editor of Asian Labour Review. He is the founder and director of Just Economy and Labor Institute (JELI), a labor justice organization where he has led a series of action research on platform workers since 2017. Kriangsak works extensively with labor movements in Thailand. He is currently a convener at the Asian Labor School and a Just Tech Fellow, 2024-2026, with the U.S. Social Science Research Council.

Nash Tysmans is the Asia Regional Organizer for StreetNet International. She is a writer and activist from the Philippines, and is currently based in Brussels.

Kevin Lin is the managing editor of Asian Labour Review, and a co-convenor of Asian Labour School. He writes about labour struggles in China and Asia, and is interested in building international labour solidarity. He is a co-author of China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry (Haymarket 2024)