Exploring Filipino Creative Labor

Attempting to document the economic realities, experiences of precarity, and structural gaps of freelance creative workers across the Philippines.

PHILIPPINE SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2025 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

"SOCIOLOGY OF CRISIS AND CARE: NAVIGATING TENSIONS, CHARTING ALTERNATIVES”OCTOBER 1-3, 2025 AT ATENEO DE DAVAO UNIVERSITY, DAVAO CITY, PHILIPPINES

MAY KONTRATA KA BA?: EXPLORING ENDO-LIKE REALITIES AMONG FILIPINO CONTRACTUAL FREELANCERS

Kiandra Shanice E. David

HIMIG NG HANAPBUHAY: NAVIGATING PASSION AND PRECARITY IN THE FIELD OF FREELANCE FILIPINO MUSICIANS

DIGITAL DISKARTE: TIKTOK AS A SOCIAL FIELD OF PLATFORM-ENABLED FREELANCE WORK

Katherine S. Hernandez

Gillian Daphne del Rosario

KALAYAAN, HANAPBUHAY, AT PAGSIBAT: A CONCEPTUAL UNPACKING OF FREELANCE WORK IN THE PHILIPPINES

Theresa Anne Nadine L. Rellamas

Conference Presentations

PHILIPPINE SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2024 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Marvin Rellamas and Theresa Anne Nadine Rellamas

“IMAGINING (DE)COLONIZATION: REFLECTIONS, DIRECTIONS, ACTIONS” OCTOBER 2-4, 2024, CARAGA STATE UNIVERSITY, BUTUAN CITY (download book of abstracts here)

Theresa Anne Nadine Rellamas

ROSE O LIMOS? CATEGORIZING ONLINE BEGGING ON TIKTOK LIVE IN THE PHILIPPINES

MALAYANG HANAPBUHAY: EXPLORING THE SOCIOLOGY OF FREELANCE WORK IN THE PHILIPPINES

BUILDING A LIVELIHOOD THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA: THE PURSUIT OF MALAYANG HANAPBUHAY AMONG FILIPINO FREELANCERS ON FACEBOOK

Karen D. Jolloso

“PAGBAKLAS NG HARANG”: FREELANCE FILIPINO CREATIVE STAGE PERFORMERS NAVIGATING WORK IN THE EVOLVING PHILIPPINE ECONOMY

Danika M. Geronimo

ALIPIN NG SALAPI: STRATEGIC USE OF ECONOMIC CAPITAL AMIDST WORK PRECARITY AMONG FREELANCE VIDEOGRAPHERS IN METRO MANILA

Hazel A. Lao