Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand - Stephen Campbell, 2025 The mainstream anti-trafficking movement asserts a sharp distinction between freedom and unfreedom—between “free” waged employment, on the one hand, and “modern...

My new article on debt-bondage among Myanmar migrant fishermen who labour in the southern Thai port-city of Ranong.

My new article on increased police extortion of Myanmar migrants in Thailand since Myanmar's 2021 military coup: "Navigating Thailand's extortion regime."

What Can Myanmar’s Labour History Teach Us? We put the history and present of capitalist development and labour struggles in Burma/Myanmar into conversation with concepts and arguments in contemporary labour theory.

Upcoming online course I'll be facilitating for the Asian Labour School.

Historical Materialism Conference in East and Southeast Asia 2025 - Historical Materialism Since the mid-2010s, East and Southeast Asia have witnessed an unending chain of uneven uprisings against interlocking oppressive processes of racial capitalist accumulation. This new conjuncture has ...

See you there, comrades.

Au Myanmar, derrière les fusils, les travailleurs En kiosques // par Stephen Campbell (janvier 2025)

My commentary in Le Monde Diplomatique on connections between working conditions, labour struggles, and the revolution in Myanmar.

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library In a world of proliferating displacement crises and restricted mobility pathways, low-wage labor migration has become, for many, a more feasible refuge than formal asylum. The refugee-as-displaced-mi...

My new article out in American Anthropologist: "The ethnographic crime scene: Tracing the violence within market relations on the Thai-Myanmar border" doi.org/10.1111/aman...

Book Launch: Insidious Capital YouTube video by CMI-UiB LawTransform

Congratulations to Don Kalb (prof of Anthropology @unibergen.bsky.social) on the AAA's Anthropology of Work #BookOfTheYear for "Insidious Capital". Watch the launch at #BergenExchanges. Sobering, insightful - and unusually funny - thanks to a great panel!
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Donate to Support Myanmar Workers on Strike, organized by Simon Rosenblum-Larson On July 5, 2024, workers who are members of the Federation of General Workers… Simon Rosenblum-Larson needs your support for Support Myanmar Workers on Strike

Consider supporting workers on strike now at the Charis Sculpture factory in Myanmar.

Anti-racism must be anti-imperialist: why the left should read Gerald Horne Speaking to an audience in Harlem in December 1964 after returning from his second trip to Africa, Malcolm X drew connections between the struggle against white supremacy in the United States and the ...

From Malcolm X and Aimé Césaire to the Palestinian solidarity movement: My review of the new Gerald Horne reader.