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An Education Worker's Inquiry Survey Series

An Education Worker's Inquiry Survey Series

I am conducting research on capitalist exploitation of workers in the education industry. If you work in any job role in education, please consider answering some, or all, of the questions in this survey series.

Students Belong in the Union!

theory and strategy

Students Belong in the Union!

This essay was adapted from a pamphlet written by UK based members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union for student-organizers. Given the upsurge in undergraduate student-worker organizing in the last few years, it is an essential development we must analyze.

How DCI and BOA fit with Steven Hasan’s B.I.T.E model

How DCI and BOA fit with Steven Hasan’s B.I.T.E model

The reason why groups like DCI and BOA are toxic and dangerous is that parents, teachers, and students don’t know the harm or damage being done physiologically, mentally, and psychologically until much later on in life.

An update - a shift in focus of the project

An update - a shift in focus of the project

Right now, we think the most productive path forward is to use our platform to bring together an informal community of revolutionary education workers.

Support Palestinian Journalists

The Printing and Publishing Workers Union (IU 450) of the IWW is raising money on behalf of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. Details can't be shared but the PPWU folks are directly in touch with folks on the ground, so any money you send will have a real, concrete,

Spontaneous Combustion: Reflections on an Unplanned Workplace Direct Action

Spontaneous Combustion: Reflections on an Unplanned Workplace Direct Action

A report and reflection about a series of direct actions and attempts to form a union by staff at a charter school from a former employee. We welcome other workplace reports, including anonymous ones. Summer, 2022 The meeting went off the rails when I got a text from one of

Why I Quit Academe for a Coding Boot Camp

Why I Quit Academe for a Coding Boot Camp

With the tenure-track market stalled, a history Ph.D. was urged to pursue Plan B. Unfortunately, he says, the alt-ac career trajectory is broken too. We republish this piece by Zeb Larson, who now works in curriculum development, detailing his experiences in the job market during the Covid-19 pandemic. It

The Class Divide within Education

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The Class Divide within Education

This is the introduction to an upcoming series, The Industrialization of Education. It lays out our general analytical framework. Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American life today: one is the industrial ideal dominating through the supremacy of commercialism, which subordinates the worker to the product and the machine;

Doctoral Training Is Ossified. Can We Reinvent It?

Doctoral Training Is Ossified. Can We Reinvent It?

Lessons from the short-lived Next Generation Humanities Ph.D. program. We republish this piece by Zeb Larson, originally published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, which tells the tale of a cooperative effort to transform graduate and post-doctoral education at Washington State University and other post-secondary institutions. It clearly illustrates

Proletarians or Professionals? A History from Below of Teacher Unionism in the United States

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Proletarians or Professionals? A History from Below of Teacher Unionism in the United States

This piece began as a research paper I created for a class that I took while working on my teacher certification in 2020. At first, it was meant to be a cut and dry, chronological history of the movement. I was working in-person for minimum wage at the height of

The Working Class is in Danger!

theory and strategy

The Working Class is in Danger!

Adapted from: https://www.angryworkers.org/2020/10/10/the-necessity-of-a-revolutionary-working-class-program-in-times-of-coup-and-civil-war-scenarios/ The working class is in danger The physical and armed attacks on protests, LGBTQIA+ folks, Black Americans, educators, and others make it urgent to discuss concretely the need for revolutionary change. This becomes even more urgent when we remind ourselves

An Education Workers' Self-Inquiry

An Education Workers' Self-Inquiry

Adapted from Karl Marx’s pamphlet “A Workers’ Inquiry” for the 143rd anniversary of when it was first published in La Revue socialiste on April 20, 1880; Transcribed by Curtis Price, 1997. Full text Printable Booklet Version Who are we? We are a political art collective of radical education workers

The Industrialization of Education: Phase Three, 1992-Today

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The Industrialization of Education: Phase Three, 1992-Today

"This is a union busting tactic. All of this is. Vouchers, charter schools standardized testing, and teacher evaluation schemes were all created with two purposes in mind: destroy the teachers' unions and privatize education."

The Industrialization of Education: Phase Two, 1954-1975

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The Industrialization of Education: Phase Two, 1954-1975

This three-part study of the education industry is by and for Angry Education Workers, a political art collective open to all instructional and support staff in schools, museums, libraries, and archives. The Industrialization of Education - printable booklet version Realignment and Recovery When the Great Depression slammed the brakes on

The Industrialization of Education: Phase One, 1870-1930

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The Industrialization of Education: Phase One, 1870-1930

This three-part study of the education industry is by and for Angry Education Workers, a political art collective open to all instructional and support staff in schools, museums, libraries, and archives. The Industrialization of Education - printable booklet version Phase One, 1870-1930 Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American

Draft Platform for the Virginia Working Class

This document was drafted by The Virginia Worker. While many on the left have differing opinions on the need or desirability for a workers’ party, these are the types of conversations and points of unity we need to be advancing. We appreciate the folks at The Virginia Worker for their