The 1940s marked the initiation of the oil drilling and export industries in the Arabian Gulf. This led to a high demand in labour which could not be filled by the population in the respective countries. Ultimately, the labour demand was fulfilled by migrant workers, many coming from the South Asian subcontinent and other neighbouring Arab countries. This paper shall expand on previous studies of connections between colonial labour conditions and their mechanisms of reproduction by the newly found states, specifically Kuwait. Moreover, it will attempt to draw out the relationship between the exponential growth of the energy systems around the extraction and production of oil, and the labour conditions of Kuwait. Examining the conditions of labour will also highlight any legal and social barriers faced by migrant workers to collective bargaining, protesting rights, consent to work, and incarceration. Hence, the main objective of this paper is to provide a historical analysis of labour conditions in Kuwait. In other words, this paper queries how legal, economic, and social conditions of colonial labour politics, were exacerbated by the high demand for cheap labour in the oil sector of the newly independent Kuwait as well as other Gulf states. The social, political, racial, and gendered identities in the labour market are central to this analysis. Thus, the paper argues that labour laws in Kuwait follow an exclusionary framework based on ad hoc and informal regulations. The regulations aim at "othering" of the migrant working. The labour migrant is stripped from any rights of permanent residency, or the opportunity for an eventual social and economic integration into Kuwaiti society. The value of the labour migrant is tied to their value of production in the Kuwaiti market. Ultimately, Labour policies in Kuwait diminish the political, economic, and social rights and identities of migrant workers.