Working-class knowledge

dublin | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice Tuesday October 02, 2007 11:24 by Laurence Cox

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.