Academics

Before joining GKS, Dae-oup has taught at the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has also taught in the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong and the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He has also worked as the research coordinator for Asia Monitor Resource Centre, an international NGO specializing labour issues in Asia. He graduated from Sogang University in Seoul, Korea and earned his MA in Social and Political Thought and PhD in Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. He has been widely publishing articles and chapters on East Asian development, Korean labour relations, migration and globalisation. His major works include Capitalist Development in Korea: Labour, Capital and the Myth of Development State (2009, London: Routledge). His current research focuses on the ways in which Korean capitalism affects the social development of the least developed countries in Asia through migration, investment and aid.

Professor, Global Korean Studies (2020~)

Associate Professor, Global Korean Studies, Sogang University (2015-2020)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2011-2015) 

Lecturer, Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2008-2011)

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong (2006-2008)

Research Coordinator, Asia Monitor Resource Centre, Hong Kong (2003-2006).  

PhD, Sociology, University of Warwick, UK (1999-2003)

MA, Social and Political Thought, University of Warwick, UK (1998-1999)

BA, German Language and Literature, Sogang University (1991-1997)

Academic Activities

Editor-in-Chief, Asian Labour Review (2022~present) 

Editorial Board Member, European Journal of East Asian Studies (2019~present) 

Editorial Board Member, Marxism 21, (2015~present)

Correspondence Editor, Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory (2015~present)

Series Editor, Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies, Springer (2016~현재)

Editorial Board Member,  Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory (2000~2003; 2008~2015)

2022     Continent of Labour: The Making of East Asia from Colonial Integration to Neoliberal Ascent, National Research Foundation of Korea (2022S1A6A4043158) (2022~2025)

2019    Transnational Labour Regimes and Sustainable Development, Korea Research Foundation (Principal Investigator)

2015    Assessing the Employment Impact of Chinese Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa, DFID/ESRC China-Africa Research Programme (Co-investigator).

2011    Labour Conditions and the Working Poor in China and India, ESRC/DFID joint scheme for research on international development (poverty alleviation) (Co-Investigator)

2007    Asia in the Global Factory, Centre of Asian Studies, funded by The University of Hong Kong CRCG Small Project Funding. (Principal investigator).

2007    Transformation of Labour, Asian Developing Countries in Globalisation’, Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, funded by Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research. (Principal investigator).

2006    Construction TNCs and Workers in Asia, Asia Monitor Resource Centre, funded by Building and Wood Workers International. (Principal investigator).

2005    Post-Socialist Trade Unions, Low Pay and Decent Work: University of Warwick, International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Labour Vietnam, Beijing Remin University, and Asia Monitor Resource Centre, funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC UK). (Regional Coordinator)

Award

2009     Journal of Contemporary Asia Best Article Award Winner in 2009, with ‘Informalising Labour in Asia's Global Factory’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 161-179.

PhD Supervision   

2012-2017   Farwa Sial, Department of Development Studies, SOAS. Thesis Title: The Internationalisation of the Korea Developmental State: The Role of Development Aid.

2012-2017   James Brown, Department of Development Studies, SOAS. Thesis Title: Reworking Territory, Assembling Scale: Labour’s Agency in Lao Border Manufacturing.

2011-2016   Shuwan Zhang, Department of Development Studies, SOAS. Thesis Title: Industrialising China, Escaping Labour: Economic Development and the Agency of Migrant Labour in Guangdong, Zhjiang and Jiangsu Province.

2011-2016   Jan-Frido Wenten, Department of Development Studies, SOAS. Thesis Title: Reinventing the Wheel: Labour, development and global car production in post-1970s China and Mexico.            

Chang, Dae-oup et al. (2024) Postcapitalism and the Innovation of Marxism: Theories and Praxis (포스트자본주의와 마르크스주의의 혁신), Seoul: Jininjin (in Korean).

Chang, Dae-oup et al. (2024) Postcapitalist Alternatives for East Asia (동아시아 포스트자본주의 대안: 평가와 전망), Seoul: Jininjin (in Korean).

Chang, Dae-oup et al. (2023) East Asian Marxism: past, present, future (동아시아 마르크스주의: 과거, 현재, 미래), Seoul: Jininjin (in Korean).

Chang, Dae-oup et al. (2023) East Asian Capitalism: Marxist Approach (동아시아 자본주의: 마르크스주의적 접근), Seoul: Jininjin (in Korean).

Chang, Dae-oup et al. (2023) East Asian Marxism: past, present, future (동아시아 마르크스주의: 과거, 현재, 미래), Seoul: Jininjin (in Korean).

장대업 (2017) 『어서와요 노동존중 CSR』, 해피스토리 (공저)

장대업 (2016) 『대안사회경제를 위한 여정』, 한울 (공저)

장대업 (2015) 『자본의 세계화와 한국사회 계급구조 변화』, 한울 (공저)

장대업 (2014) 『세계화와 계급구조의 변화: 국제사례 연구』, 한울 (공저)

장대업 (2012) 『세계화와 계급구조의 변화: 이론적 접근』, 한울 (공저)

Chang, Dae-Oup (2009) Capitalist Development in Korea: Labour, Capital and the Myth of the Developmental State. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Korean Studies)

Dae-oup, Chang, ed. (2010) 全球化下的亞洲跨國企業勞工：抗爭的圖像. Taipei, Taiwan: 台灣社會?究雜誌社.

Chang, Dae-oup, ed. (2008) Samsung in Asia: Transnational Samsung and Asian Workers (Asiaro gan Samsung). Seoul, Korea: Humanitas.

Chang, Dae-Oup, ed. (2006) Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: A Portrait of Struggle. Hong Kong: Asia Monitor Resource Centre.

Chang, Dae-Oup and Shepherd, Ed, eds. (2005) Asian Transnational Corporation Outlook 2004: Asian TNCs, workers and the movement of capital. Hong Kong: Asia Monitor Resource Centre. (Asian TNC monitoring network book series)

Chang, Dae-oup (2025) ‘Rethinking Asian Labour Movements in the Age of Decaying Neoliberalism’, in Jeong, S. and Saito, K. (eds.) Capitalism and Postcapitalism in East Asia: Marxist Perspectives, London: Routledge, forthcoming

Chang, Dae-oup (2024) ‘Transnational Labor Regimes and the Cambodian Case of Asianizing Capitalist Development’, in Chang, K.-S., Kim, T. and Lee, J. (eds) Asianization of Asia: Regional Dynamics and Korean Parameters, London: Routledge

Chang, Dae-oup (2022) 'Korean labour movement: the birth, rise and transformation of the democratic trade union movement', in Lim, S. and Alsford, N. J. P. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea. London: Routledge, pp. 159-174.

Chang, Dae-oup (2022) ‘The Continent of Labour and Uneven Development: The Making of Transnational Labour Regimes in East Asia’, in Baglioni, E., Campling, L., Coe, N. M. and Smith, A. (eds.) Labour Regimes and Global Production, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing, pp. 137-153.

Chang, Dae-oup (2016) ‘Labor Rights and Trade Unions in Cambodia’, in Brickell, Katherine and Springer, Simon (eds.) The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia, London: Routledge, pp. 191-201 (with Dennis Arnolds).

Chang, Dae-oup (2015) 'East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left'.' In: Marois, Thomas and Pradella, Lucia, (eds.), Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis. London: Pluto Press, pp. 180-191.

Chang, Dae-oup (2014) 'The global economic crisis and East Asian labour migration: a crisis of migration or struggles of labour?' In: Lindley, Anna, (ed.), Crisis and Migration: Critical perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 93-114. (Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration)

Chang, Dae-oup (2013) 'Labour and 'Developmental State': A Critique of the Developmental State Theory of Labour.' In: Fine, Ben and Tavasci, Daniela and Saraswati, Jyoti, (eds.), Beyond The Development State: Industrial Policy into the Twenty-First Century. Pluto, pp. 85-109.

Chang, Dae-oup (2012) 'Labour, Democratisation and Neo-liberalism in East Asia.' In: Cho, H-Y andAeria, Andrew and Hur, S-W, (eds.), From Unity to Multiplicities: Social Movement Transformation and Democratization in Asia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, pp. 45-82.

Chang, Dae-oup (2011) 'Neoliberalism, Trade Union Response, and the Transformation of the Korean Labour Movement.' In: Gall, G and Hurd, R and Wilkinson, A, (eds.), International Handbook on Labour Unions: responses to neo-liberalism. London: Edward Elgar, pp. 201-227.

Chang, Dae-oup (2010) 'Critique of Social Movement Trade Unionism: Multilayered value-fronts and the possibility of social-labour movement.' In: Seong Jin, Jeong and Kim, Chang-guen, (eds.), Ideas of Alter-Globalization Movement. Seoul, Korea: Hanul, pp. 45-90.

Chang, Dae-oup (2009) 'Reclaiming Labour Law and Beyond.' In: Lee, Doris and Leong, Apo andOfreneo, Rene and Skumaran, Anoop, (eds.), Rights for Two-Thirds of Asia: Asian Labour Law Review 2008. Hong Kong: Asia Monitor Resource Centre, xiii-xxvi.

Chang, Dae-oup (2007) 'When Capital Becomes Society: The Recomposition of Capitalist Work and New Labour Activism in Korea.' In: Hart-Lansberg, Martin and Jeong, Seongjin and Westra, Richard, (eds.),Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 221-239.

Chang, Dae-oup (2005) 'Neoliberal Restructuring of Capital Relations in East and South-East Asia.' In:Saad Filho, Alfredo and Johnston, Deborah, (eds.), Neoliberalism: a Critical Reader. London: Pluto Press, pp. 251-258.

Chang, Dae-oup and Wong, Monina (2005) 'FDI and Labour in China: the actors and possibility of a new working class activism.' In: Chang, Dae-Oup and Shepherd, Ed, (eds.), Asian Transnational Corporation Outlook 2004: Asian TNCs, workers and the movement of capital. Asia Monitor Resource Centre, pp. 107-154.