Welcome to the new site for Critical Work
Critical Work was started as a newspaper for worker democracy at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2008 by Royal Brevväxling and Lee Abbott. It was published in conjunction with our Worker Education Forums, meetings at which union members in the AFT and AFSCME locals encouraged other unions' members and those not represented by unions, such as all the undergraduate student labor on campus, to attend and speak to their work experience at the university, share stories and identify both shared issues and unique workplace injustices in order to collectively work to right them.
Read More … Open the Door
Monday night I read about Elizabeth Smart’s latest talk at Johns Hopkins University. Just a few hours later news reports were filed from a west Cleveland neighborhood about three girls. They had been missing for 9+ years and found Monday night just miles from their homes and their mint-condition childhood bedrooms. How?
I think “how” is a better question than “why.” But I’m asking optimists and realists and fellow feminists to disagree. Read more … Recent Site Changes Image by Janekpfeifer (Wikimedia).
While we take the time to repopulate the site with critical work (and temporarily in lieu of more content), we thought you'd be interested in some of the changes we're making.
New, original video content will run alongside multimedia content from others on the Multimedia page. We've created a dedicated page for writing about and from Education, featuring original work in education theory and practice, critical pedagogy and cultural studies. We plan to have everything up and running again shortly after May Day. Check back often and visit Critical Work on Facebook. |
Critical Work is distributing surveys for 9to5 Milwaukee's Living Wage campaign. Interested in filling one out?
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Coming Soon
Critical Work talks to kids about their treatment by adults.
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When Barbara Gets Paid
New Poetry by Molly Brevväxling. |
Mayor Pitt
Brad Pitt for mayor of New Orleans?
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Overpass Light Brigade
Going strong with 25 chapters and a new documentary.
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Regarding "belonging"
An essay on the concept of "belonging."
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CriticalWork 2013