Dr Phoebe Moore is a writer, a teacher, and an activist at heart. Her main areas of interest are the global political economy, work and labour, inequality, and neoliberalism. She has conducted extensive field work in South Korea and lived in Niigata, and Tokyo, Japan. She studied at the International University of Japan, and her PhD is from Nottingham University, where she wrote about globalisation, the idea of development, and labour struggle.