Rad Ed Forum – reading ‘Training for Exploitation?’ by PWB

We are joined by some members of the Precarious Workers Brigade to read their new book ‘Training For Exploitation? Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education’.
See details & download link below!

All are welcome!

What: RadEd Forum reading ‘Training for Exploitation?’ (PWB)
When: Monday, 27th of March 7-9pm
Where: Common House, Unit 5E Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London E2 9QG

‘Training For Exploitation? Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education’:

This 96-pages workbook is a critical resource pack for educators teaching employability, ‘professional practice’ and work-based learning.
It provides a pedagogical framework that assists students and others in deconstructing dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy.
Training for Exploitation? includes tools for critically examining the relationship between education, work and the cultural economy. It provides useful statistics and workshop exercises on topics such as precarity, employment rights, cooperation and solidarity, as well as examples of alternative educational and organising practices. Training for Exploitation? shows how we can both critique and organise against a system that is at the heart of the contemporary crises of work, student debt and precarity.

‘For many years the members of Precarious Workers Brigade have been developing insightful analyses, tools and actions questioning wageless and other exploitative forms of labour in the arts and education sectors. ‘Training for Exploitation?’ is no exception. As an educator I support the effort the book makes to provide the analysis and the tools needed to challenge the conversation, now predominant in the classroom, concerning ‘employability’. As a feminist I recognise many of these tools from past and contemporary practices of consciousness raising. They are effective and I encourage readers to use them’. – Silvia Federici

Written by PWB, Foreword by Silvia Federici
Published by Journal of Aesthetics & Protest (JOAAP)
Designed by Evening Class, Printed by Calverts

Available as a free download through: http://joaap.org/press/trainingforexploitation.htm

Precarious Workers Brigade:
We are a UK-based group of precarious workers in culture & education. We call out in solidarity with all those struggling to make a living in this climate of instability and enforced austerity.

The PWB’s praxis springs from a shared commitment to developing research and actions that are practical, relevant and easily shared and applied. If putting an end to precarity is the social justice we seek, our political project involves developing tactics, strategies, formats, practices, dispositions, knowledges and tools for making this happen.

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