Workers' self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar

• Main Authors: Campbell, Stephen, Maung, Ko
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Labour organising; Myanmar
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181062
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In February 2021, the Myanmar military seized power in a coup, bringing to an end a decade of quasi-civilian electoral rule, during which workers in Myanmar had organised themselves into close to 3000 workplace unions. The coup and post-coup imposition of martial law thus upended what had been a vig...