Manual Labours' Manual #5: The Global Staffroom (prototype 1)
Manual Labours' Manual #5: The Global Staffroom (prototype 1)
This first stage of Manual Labours’ Manual #5: The Global Staffroom analyses contributions to the 17 Global Staffroom podcasts recorded between April and August 2020. Through listening to the many different voices we were joined by, we translate experiences of the formal and informal spaces for care and rest at work, which can tell us as much about the effect of the different power strategies and structures upon the working body, as attention to employment law.
Running through the manual are a series of exercises and provocations for continuing the process of the podcast, inviting your reflections on what a staffroom means to you, both physically and conceptually as well as what it feels like to care, be cared for and not be able to care/receive care at work, with an expanded understanding of work, whether paid, unpaid or paid poorly.
Through this method of reworking and editing we hope concerns about care in and as work, can be activated in new contexts, initiate collective discussions, and connect to wider social, political and cultural landscapes. (Manual Labours)