The end of the Soviet Union marked a turning point in the radical reconfiguration of labor relations in the post-Soviet world, including in Central Asia. The effects of this “unmaking” of Soviet working life—to paraphrase Humphrey1—were articulated in new capital-labor relations that led to a heightened sense of financial and existential insecurity across large sections of Central Asian societies. Thirty years on, mass labor precarization in the region appears in line with broader trends in the global political economy, where, despite enduring and even significant differences between countries in the Global North and the Global South, “[c]ontingent, precarious, and temporary jobs are becoming the norm.”2

苏联的解体标志着后苏联世界（包括中亚）劳资关系彻底重组的转折点。苏联工作生活的这种“毁灭”的影响——用汉弗莱1的话说——在新的劳资关系中得到了体现，这种关系导致中亚社会大部分地区的金融和生存不安全感加剧。三十年过去了，该地区的大规模劳动力不稳定现象似乎与全球政治经济的更广泛趋势一致，尽管北半球国家和南半球国家之间存在持久甚至显着的差异，但“偶然的、不稳定的和不确定的”临时工作正在成为常态。” 2