This course examines the relation between economic, political and social development, and labour relations, labour movements and labour organization. The course examines theories of development which focus on labour as part of their framework as well as ask what development means to workers. The course will explore current problems and issues facing labour (forced precarity, modern slavery, gender discrimination, human trafficking etc) and illustrate how labour is responding at various levels. As such the course will explain why labour is central to development but disenfranchised from the processes of development, and then how they organise to challenge the current developmental ethos.