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Working-class knowledge

category dublin | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice author Tuesday October 02, 2007 11:24author by Laurence Cox Report this post to the editors

an open event hosted by the working-class studies group

Open half-day event bringing together different kinds of knowledge produced by and for working-class people, communities and institutions.

Saturday, November 10th (2 to 6 pm)
Maynooth (Auxilia Hall 2, north campus)

The working-class studies group is dedicated to knowledge production by and for working-class people, communities and institutions, whether this knowledge is produced informally in everyday life, within formal academic institutions, or by community groups and other working-class bodies. This group is for working-class people studying or working within any form of education, formal or informal; for people teaching about working-class life; and for people studying different aspects of working-class culture, history and community.

Working-class studies includes, but is not limited to, research carried out by working-class community groups, trade unions and left groups; the study of working-class life, culture and institutions within traditional academic disciplines; working-class community education; labour history; community-based research; the study of left organisations and history; etc.

The event is open to a wide variety of different voices and languages - everyday working-class speech, the languages of different academic disciplines, the new languages of migrant workers in Ireland and the languages of working-class activism. The goal is to share knowledge developed by and for working-class people across a wide variety of places, spaces and purposes. The event isn't in opposition to the many existing forms of working-class knowledge and knowledge about working-class life; rather its aim is to provide a space where these different forms of knowledge can meet and communicate.

Contact: martina.carroll@ucd.ie

Admission free; all welcome
See http://www.nuim.ie/location/maps/north.shtml for location and http://www.nuim.ie/location/index.shtml for transport details.

author by Sage & Thymepublication date Sat Nov 10, 2007 16:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I would be very interested in reading how Lawrence Carroll defines 'working class' in a republican society such as is Ireland.

Where the majority work for a living regardless of whether they are weekly waged or salaried.

So is working class defined by size of income, educational achievement or the type of work?

In my opinion the nomenclature "Working Class" is an outmoded phrase no longer applicable in the Nuclear Age.

author by Workerpublication date Sat Nov 10, 2007 14:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This looks quite interesting, but just out of curiosity, what do you mean by working class? Are you talking about 'those who sell their labour' or do you mean marginal groups. Thanks

 
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