ABSTRACT
The final chapter brings the previous chapters together to make an argument about how labour–capital relations and antagonisms shape forms of labour militancy in contemporary Vietnam. I argue that they do this as the technical class composition into which workers are organised is closely related to the political class composition which workers organise themselves into. The technical class composition, the informalising-formalising labour regime, formalises labour by bringing workers together in factories and production units, while simultaneously making formal work increasingly informal. This technical class composition helps structure the political class composition of workers; decentralised resistance, especially wildcat strikes and microstrikes. I also consider where Vietnamese labour activism is going, and outline some tentative possibilities taking into account freedom of association reforms, falling strike numbers, the impact of COVID-19, and the development of labour militancy in other sectors.
