Conference Program
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I.07. Organising As Workers In Higher Education: In, Against And Beyond The University Location: Scienze Politiche (CU002): Aula C Convenor(s): Sol Gamsu (Durham University, United Kingdom); Flora Petrik (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany); Ana Tanevska (University of Uppsala, Sweden) | |
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From Academics to Education Workers: Building Cross-staff Solidarity and Forging Class Relations to Make Another University Possible Durham University, United Kingdom This paper argues that union organising ought to be a key component of ‘academic activism’. Rather than consider ourselves as ‘academics’, we ought to think of ourselves as education workers. This requires academics to reconsider our role and what ‘academic’ labour means and the way it is bound relationally to the labour of all workers within the university. Overcoming distinctions between workers in the university is an essential strategy to strengthen the position of all workers relative to senior management within the university. This requires us to think carefully about class relations and the class structure of the university and to commit to the educational work of building relationships and alliances that will overcome traditional hierarchies and elitism. Organising collectively for dignity and autonomy for all workers in the university is essential to making another university, and another world, possible. | |