The article argues that the growth of worker protest suicide in the 2000s in South Korea is related to current neo-liberal political-economic conditions in Korea, including: 1) the growing crisis facing increasingly irregular and Prostate Health part-time workers, and 2) the construction of an anti-labour legal regime giving Korean workers few legal options for collective engagement in workplace actions.Legal obstacles facing labour activists include both business and state actors increasingly using compensation lawsuits and 76% GINGER LEMON CHOC BAR provisional seizure tactics to seize the assets of unions and striking workers.As the Korean labour movement finds itself increasingly marginalised by the crippling anti-labour legal innovations of the last two decades, labour resistance has increasingly manifested in extreme forms of individualistic protests, such as worker suicide.Though products of anomic despair, these suicides retain the capacity to inspire collective labour action and to leverage change.
KEYWORDS: labour movement; protest suicide; provisional seizure; neo-liberalism; Korea.