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MSc Development Studies (Labour and Activism) drafted draft

School of Oriental and African Studies, London (SOAS)
London , United Kingdom
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On campus
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Full time
Course Language
English
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Program Overview

Students are encouraged to examine critically the relationship between labour, capitalism, development and poverty. We investigate labour in the contemporary social and economic development of the Global South as well as established and emerging social movements of labour in local, national and international spaces. You will learn to identify and evaluate the relationship between collective agency, policy and vice-versa.

We work in a seminar/tutorial formats that encourage critical thinking and participation via an emphasis on the relationship between theory and practice. Programme lecturers are not just research active.

We are also activists and have experience of participation in labour and social movements across the world - Latin America, Africa and Asia and Europe and have on-going contacts with such movements as well as with NGOs and international organisations.

Why study MSc Development Studies (Labour and Activism) at SOAS?

  • We are ranked 2nd in the world for Development Studies (QS World University Rankings 2023).

  • You will have the opportunity to take work placements as part of your degree, and we offer internships in the department and in partner organisations. This year MSc students were offered placements in the

    International Organisation for Migration

    , the

    London International Development Centre

    and international NGOs.

  • Get a placement in a partner organisation working in international development with our new  International Development Placement module - available as in-person and virtual options.

  • Our academic staff create an intellectually stimulating and challenging space across the many branches of international development and humanitarianism that make up Development Studies. All modules engage with questions of climate crisis, recognising its impact and interaction with processes of inequality and change.

  • Our staff specialise in a range of thematic areas including sustainability and climate change, migration and displacement, conflict, humanitarian action, labour, political ecology, and aid and institutions.

  • Combined with exceptional resources and our interdisciplinary approach, we offer a unique learning and research opportunity for our diverse and vibrant student community.

    • Highlights

  • a placement with an active labour or social movement organisation
  • labour process and organisations: development trajectories and divisions in the South
  • a comparative history of labour and social movements in countries such as China, Korea, India, South Africa, Brazil and the Middle East
  • corporate social responsibility initiatives, codes of conduct and anti-sweatshop campaigning
  • the impact of neoliberalism and globalisation on workers in the South
  • informalisation of labour, casualization and precarious work and the rise of the Gig economy
  • feminisation of labour
  • the worst forms of exploitation: forced labour, child labour and Modern Slavery
  • rural labour, migrant labour and labour in Export Processing Zones
  • household and reproductive labour
  • the International Labour Organisation, international labour standards and decent work
  • practices and theories of local, national and international labour campaigns
  • an assessed group project that allows students to apply acquired knowledge to ‘virtual’ practice

    • Who should apply?

    The MSc Development Studies (Labour and Activism) programme is for students who wish to understand how labour and collective agency impacts on core processes of development. Our students acquire skill sets that combine theory and practice of labour, social movements and how they interplay with key developmental themes and interventions.

    The programme is relevant to students with a strong background in the social sciences in their first degree as well as practitioners and activists from a wide spectrum of organisations and approaches.

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