Fathimah Fildzah Izzati

Fathimah is a researcher focusing on feminist political economy, social reproduction, labour studies, labour regimes, gendered labour, workers’ resistance, and labour movements in Indonesia. Her work takes an interdisciplinary approach grounded in Marxist-feminist theory, with a growing interest in ecological issues and their intersection with labour studies.

Fathimah has been working as a researcher at the Research Center for Politics at BRIN (Indonesia). She earned an MSc in Labour, Social Movements and Development from SOAS, University of London, where her dissertation explored women’s labour in social media–based online shop businesses. A short version of this work was later published as a chapter in the edited volume Kelas Pekerja dan Kapital di Indonesia: Tinjauan Awal, published by Penerbit Independen. She completed her BA in Political Science at Universitas Indonesia (UI), where her undergraduate thesis, which analysed the politics of labour unions in resisting sistem kerja kontrak in Indonesia, was recognised as one of the best in the department and subsequently published as a book in 2014, titled Politik Serikat Buruh dan Kaum Precariat: Pengalaman Tangerang dan Karawang.

She translated Silvia Federici’s Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism into Indonesian language, published by Penerbit Independen. Her work has appeared in a range of academic and public-facing outlets, including Global Labour Journal, Journal of Labor and Society, Asian Labour Review, Jurnal Prisma, Jurnal Perempuan, Indonesia at Melbourne, Tirto.id, Project Multatuli.org, and The Conversation. In 2020, she led a research team in a labour union named SINDIKASI, and published a bilingual book in 2021, titled Creative Workers in Indonesia: Flexploitation, Precariousness, and Unionizing Challenges. 

Since 2012, she has served as a volunteer editor for IndoProgress, an Indonesian media platform focused on knowledge production and has been involved with Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan (The School of Women’s Thought) since 2022. Her long-standing engagement in student, social, and labour movements since her undergraduate years—including a year-long factory occupation led by women workers in South Tangerang (2009–2010)—has profoundly shaped her personal, political, and intellectual commitment to the liberation of working-class women.

• Feminist political economy
• Social reproduction
• Labour regimes
• Labour and ecology
• Labour and social movements

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