Inhabiting Working Sites and Being Safe Industrial Batam, Post-industrial Indonesia and Rural East Java

In this paper, I will analyse how a household of "factory returnees"and a "factory family", who were directly exposed to the processes of industrialization and de-industrialization in Indonesia, appropriate labor, infrastructures and globalization. I will explore how this generation of factory workers have developed their way to stay afloat during the post-industrial, pandemic and possibly post-pandemic context.