{"id":521,"date":"2013-04-21T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=521"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:43:12","slug":"521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Workers\u2019 Inquiry Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Politics of Workers\u2019 Inquiry Conference<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ephemeraweb.org\/conference\/index.htm\">May 2-3, 2013 @ University of Essex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workers\u2019 inquiry is an approach to and practice of knowledge production that seeks to understand the changing composition of labor and its potential for revolutionary social transformation. It is the practice of turning the tools of the social sciences into weapons of class struggle. Workers\u2019 inquiry seeks to map the continuing imposition of the class relation, not as a disinterested investigation, but rather to deepen and intensify social and political antagonisms.<\/p>\n<p>This conference brings together various aspects of workers\u2019 inquiry, from its historical origins and development to contemporary mutations and adaptations of it within contemporary struggles. It will expand the terrain and form of workers\u2019 inquiry, focusing on topics including inquiries into cultural labor and the service economy, geographies of class conflict, transformation in value production, and the limits to workers\u2019 inquiry as a political\/research method.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i>Presentations from:<\/i><br \/>\nAnna Curcio (University of Messina)<br \/>\nBianca Elzebaumer &amp; Caterina Giuliani (Cantiere per pratiche non-affermative)<br \/>\nHeidi Hasbrouck (Goldsmiths)<br \/>\nTolga Hepdincler (Bahcesehir University)<br \/>\nFunda Kaya (Bahcesehir University)<br \/>\nAsli Kayhan (Kocaeli University)<br \/>\nMicha\u0142 Koz\u0142owski, Janek Sowa, Kuba Szreder (Free\/Slow University of Warsaw)<br \/>\nAlan W. Moore (ABC No Rio \/ Squatting Europe)<br \/>\nFrederick H. Pitts (University of Bath)<br \/>\nKasparas Pocius (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)<br \/>\nGigi Roggero (University of Bologna)<br \/>\nM. Nedim S\u00fcalp (Marmara University)<br \/>\nZeynep Tul Akbal Sualp (Bahcesehir University)<br \/>\nJamie Woodcock (Goldsmiths)<\/p>\n<p>Schedule available here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Schedule-WorkersInquiryConference.pdf\">Politics of Workers\u2019 Inquiry Conference Schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to register send a message to conference [AT] ephemeraweb [DOT] org.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by ephemera, the Essex Centre for Work, Organization, and Society, and the Anarchist Studies Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Politics of Workers\u2019 Inquiry Conference May 2-3, 2013 @ University of Essex Workers\u2019 inquiry is an approach to and practice of knowledge production that seeks to understand the changing composition of labor and its potential for revolutionary social transformation. It is the practice of turning the tools of the social sciences into weapons of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stevphen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}