Category: Critique
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Quiet on the Set!
A Recent History of IATSE Basic Agreement Negotiations By Aaron Hall for strikewave.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On October 4th of this year, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE, also known as the IA) announced the results of the strike authorization vote taken among roughly 60,000 of its film industry workers in Hollywood and…
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We Need More Space for Pedagogy in Our Movements
Originally written and published by Nerd Teacher on their own site Union trainings, for whatever reason, are spectacularly dull. I can’t be the only person who no longer wants to attend workshops, seminars, or trainings where people just rattle off a lecture to participants and tell them what to do and how to do it. I’m tired…
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What is emotional labour – and how do we get it wrong?
Michael James Walsh, University of Canberra and Stephanie Alice Baker, City, University of London The term “emotional labour” is applied to an array of home-based activities — from keeping mental to-do lists, to remembering to call your in-laws on their birthdays. Some advocate the need to teach boys emotional labour, or identify it as the…
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