Investigating the realities of freelance labor.

We are an independent research initiative exploring the economic precarity and autonomy of creative workers across the Philippines

Our Research Team

Ms. Nads

Lead Researcher

Theresa Anne Nadine L. Rellamas, LPT, MA

Ronald D. Maginit

tlrellamas@ust.edu.ph

Direk Marvin

Marvin P. Rellamas

Co-Lead Researcher

mprellamas@ust.edu.ph

Netanya Sarmiento

Urban Livelihoods and Tondo Studies

Audiovisual Labor and Podcast Research

Dwight Chester Layson

Hip-hop Culture and Migrant Labor

Aleah Rose P. Lajara

Cinema Portrayals and the Creative Sector

Kiandra Shanice E. David

Contractual Labor

Gillian Daphne del Rosario

Digital and Platform-enabled Labor

Katherine S. Hernandez

Music and Musician Labor

Hazel A. Lao

Videographers and Economic Capital

Danika M. Geronimo

Stage Performers and Cultural Capital

Karen S. Jolloso

Online Freelance Communities

Institutional Partners

University of Santo Tomas Department of Sociology

Ateneo de Manila University Department of Sociology and Anthropology

MHP is housed within the Department's research agenda under the Sociology of Youth, Education, Work, and Technologies, situating the project within a broader institutional program of inquiry.

MHP serves as the dissertation project of the lead researcher, undertaken in fulfillment of the PhD in Sociology.

Faculty of Arts and Letters

Dr. Rosita G. Leong School of Social Sciences