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A review by nb_leftist
Wages for Students by
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I picked this up from an anarchist bookstore in Buffalo, NY called Burning Books. I’d never heard of anything like this and I was thinking more and more about students’ situation in college and university, how we always getting fucked up, how a lot of students only go to college to get the degree (so they can then work a better job). Found this and wasn’t particularly on my (reading) shortlist but here we are.
It brought a lot of points I’d never thought about before. I’d already had thoughts ab education being a disciplining apparatus from “Discipline and Punish” by Foucault and some other anti-Ed stuff I’ve read, but none had a real political way forward. A lack of direction led me to disconnecting it from my material circumstances and mostly forgetting about it. This pamphlet put it together for me, students should get wages (whether through the form of paychecks or through financial aid/subsistence checks). It also provides a good history of the movement behind this, how the Wages for Students movement was a counterpart/inspired by the Wages for Housework movement, which I already find to be compelling.
The pamphlet includes an introduction, the pamphlet itself from 1975, and an interview with Silvia Federici and some other involved with the Wages for Housework and/or Wages for Students movements from 2013. It’s def worth a read and does a good job of situating the pamphlet from 1975 in our current time, which has only gotten worse since 2013.
It brought a lot of points I’d never thought about before. I’d already had thoughts ab education being a disciplining apparatus from “Discipline and Punish” by Foucault and some other anti-Ed stuff I’ve read, but none had a real political way forward. A lack of direction led me to disconnecting it from my material circumstances and mostly forgetting about it. This pamphlet put it together for me, students should get wages (whether through the form of paychecks or through financial aid/subsistence checks). It also provides a good history of the movement behind this, how the Wages for Students movement was a counterpart/inspired by the Wages for Housework movement, which I already find to be compelling.
The pamphlet includes an introduction, the pamphlet itself from 1975, and an interview with Silvia Federici and some other involved with the Wages for Housework and/or Wages for Students movements from 2013. It’s def worth a read and does a good job of situating the pamphlet from 1975 in our current time, which has only gotten worse since 2013.