Informal labour, social mobilisation and protest in Iraq

摘要（不超过500字）在2019年伊拉克最近的全国性抗议运动（“十月革命”）中，数千名伊拉克人走上街头抗议战后政治经济的失败，包括伊拉克不断增长的非正规劳动力人口，他们现在占人口的60%以上。基于民族志的田野调查，本文探讨了非正式劳动在伊拉克十月革命中所起的作用及其原因。这篇论文谈到了围绕全球化、不稳定的工作和动员的更广泛的辩论。以西方为中心的非正式劳动概念。- 所谓的“precedence”-表明这是一个现象与后期资本主义，我认为，无论是存在的，并要求，伊拉克的非正规劳动力不能理解没有伊拉克的不平衡融入全球市场的更长的历史和工人的机构在导航政治经济转型中发挥的作用，更广泛的观点。

Summary (no more than 500 words) During Iraq's recent countrywide protest movement in 2019 (the "October Revolution"), thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to protest the failures of the post-war political economy, including Iraq's ever-growing population of informal labourers who now make up over 60% of the population. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis asks what role informal labour played in Iraq's October Revolution and why. The thesis speaks to broader debates surrounding globalisation, precarious work and mobilisation. Western-centric conceptualisations of informal labour. - the so-called "precariat" - suggest that this is a phenomenon associated with late-stage capitalism, I argue that both the existence, and demands, of Iraq's informal labourers cannot be understood without a broader view of Iraq's longer history of uneven integration into the global market and the role played by workers' agency in navigating political-economic transformations.