'it has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself - a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust' - William Morris
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We're busy bees here at the Class Work Project, and just as we released Lumpen issue 17 last week, now we're back with the call out for Lumpen 18: queer liberation is class struggle!
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theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-18-ca...
This!
"One thing that organizers know is that...We organize people to strategize around the specific regional, national, and contextual issues they are facing.
We don’t try to “save people.”
Instead, we try to teach them how to save themselves."
Free time has become the right’s latest site of attacks against disabled people and people with low incomes. These attacks are built on made-up stories that over-estimate the ‘free’ time people actually have & portray these groups as being unworthy of joy and reinvigoration.
In ‘The tragedy of leisure’, the author laments for The Times what he perceives as an increase in people’s time for leisure, attributes people’s increased interest in ‘populism’ to this extra time, has a go at people for not having more children & more.
Free time has become the right’s latest target
In today’s episode of Centering All of Life Around Profit Hurts Disabled People. I can’t go to my local Barnes and Noble because there is nowhere to sit down in the bookstore. Imagine being able to sit down and browse through a stack of books in a bookstore. Thorn wanted to go and now I feel bad 😞
Printscreen of a post on the Spectator website, titled ‘benefits Britain exposed: are you paying for someone’s else day out?’
Absolutely vile stuff
‘Those on welfare are not enduring the cost-of-living crisis in the same way as the rest of us, with successive governments fiddling with prices and prioritising claimants’
Everyone should have access to leisurely and restful activities
I am looking for advisory committee members for the project below (on Disability, Rest, & Free Time).
I would be grateful to receive expressions of interest from racialised disabled people who are interested in rest, free time, and their relationship to processes of racialisation in the UK.
‘When I look at how everything works at an agency, it becomes clear that it is a mini-system of quite real oppression designed or evolved in practice to control the immigrant workforce better’
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'Today, the UK is rated “obstructed” for civic freedoms by the Civicus Monitor, placing it among a small group of European democracies where protest and civil liberties are seen as under pressure'
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...
For more information, my email address is ioana.chis@glasgow.ac.uk
I am looking for advisory committee members for the project below (on Disability, Rest, & Free Time).
I would be grateful to receive expressions of interest from racialised disabled people who are interested in rest, free time, and their relationship to processes of racialisation in the UK.
#OtD 29 Mar 1988 half a million workers in the Philippines went on a general strike in pursuit of an across-the-board flat rate pay increase stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...
'“Awarding people a lower rate just because they may hypothetically recover later turns the constant struggle with unpredictable conditions into an additional cruel penalty”'
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
SCLD has launched a new 12 Point Plan for Change, setting out key priorities for the next Scottish Government.
👉 Read the full 12 Point Plan here: zurl.co/iDETd
The project will seek to consider the interconnection between disablement/disablism and racialisation/racism in the context of rest and free time.
For more information, my email address is ioana.chis@glasgow.ac.uk
'Multimethod research on precarious work under disabling capitalism: Methodological reflections' - Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
Out now, #OpenAccess
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityResearch #Anticapitalism #AntiWork
‘They went for wealth, not health. They chose to tolerate inequality. They opted for more of the same as we’ve had since 2010. That choice says much about Westminster’s priorities. People in power don’t look at life expectancy because [...] we’ve all got used to expecting less from our lives’👇🏼
graphic image of lots of diverse people
On 7 April the new Fair Work Agency launches.
Tomorrow, with @melaniesimms.bsky.social, Prof. Ruth Dukes & Dr Eleanor Kirk @glasgow.ac.uk, we’re bringing together key voices to explore what this shift in labour market enforcement means for workers in Scotland.
(image:Zdravka Boudinova-Zdravolina)
Poster for the event featuring a tarot card with pieate carers, the invitation to join the event and the logos of the collectivee supporting the event - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of pluto books
Join us on March 3, 7pm GMT for an online discussion of Pirate Care by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
This event is supported by various collectives & will launch a book review forum published in the Postdigital Science & Education Journal link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The politics of disablement, work, and free time under capitalism (white writing on a dark red background)
Account #Update
The previous project on precarious work & disablement (from which more publications will emerge) will be complemented by a new project on rest & free time under capitalism.
If any collectives are interested in getting in touch/finding out about the 2nd project, please DM/email!
#25 - Monica
'I would say to pay more attention to their family and less attention to their work because work is just not as important as your family'.
- Monica
#Rest #Disability #Work
"Just try and keep going, you know? And have a sense of humour, realise that there's some things that are out of your control. Trying to be aware of that and moving through the world at our own pace is what we all have to do. Try not to be too self-critical and be aware of internalising ableism. And just... good luck!'. - Felix
'Try not to be too self-critical and be aware of internalising ableism. And just... good luck!'
- Felix 2/2
#Rest #Disability
#24 - Felix
"Just try and keep going, you know? And have a sense of humour, realise that there's some things that are out of your control. Trying to be aware of that and moving through the world at our own pace is what we all have to do'.
- Felix 1/2
#Rest #Disability
Poster titled “Bread & Roses: Rest and free time as sites of struggle in disabling capitalism.” The title appears in grey text inside a white rectangle at the center. Behind it are overlapping yellow and orange rectangles. The background features a grid pattern resembling squared notebook paper.
Disability &
Rest / Free time / Leisure
If you know Disabled People's Organisations or other UK-based community groups / collectives currently interested in exploring the politics of rest and free time, please recommend!
#Disability #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityRights #Capitalism #Rest #FreeTime
Rest / Free time / Leisure
&
#Disability
If you know UK-based Disabled People's Organisations or other community groups / collectives that are currently interested in exploring the topics mentioned above from a 'political' perspective, please recommend!
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityRights
#23 - Dom
'Don't take work too seriously. Do the work you have to do and hopefully enjoy it (and join a union if possible), but it's not your entire life, so find leisure activities that give you pleasure. And best of luck whatever happens'.
- Dom
