Wages for Students. Wages for Students
WAGES FOR STUDENTS was written and published anonymously during student strikes in Massachusetts and New York in the fall of 1975 by three activists associated with the journal Zerowork.
SUELDO PARA ESTUDIANTES fue escrito y publicado de manera anónima por tres activistas vinculados a la revista Zerowork durante las huelgas estudiantiles en Massachusetts y Nueva York en el otoño de 1975.
DES SALAIRES POUR LES ÉTUDIANTS a été écrit et publié anonymement pendant les grèves d’étudiants du Massachusetts et de New York à l’automne 1975 par trois militants associés à la revue Zerowork.
Wages for Students | Sueldo para Estudiantes | Des salaires pour les étudiants
Introduction | Introducción | Introduction © 2016 George Caffentzis, Monty Neill, John Willshire-Carrera
This book is a editorial collaboration to be published in North America and South America respectively | Este libro es una colaboración editorial, publicado y diseñado, en América del Norte y América del Sur | Ce livre est une collaboration éditoriale pour être publié en Amérique du Nord et Amérique du Sud, respectivement © 2016 Common Notions and vaticanochico.
Originally a self-published pamphlet distributed in the United States in 1975 by members of Zerowork | Originalmente autopublicado y distribuido en Estados Unidos por miembros de Zerowork en 1975 | Ce texte a originellement été publié sous forme de brochure et distribué aux États-Unis par des membres de Zerowork en 1975.
Trilingual publication edited by | Publicación trilingüe editada por | Publication trilingue éditée par: Jakob Jakobsen, María Berríos, and Malav Kanuga.
Collective Spanish translation | Traducción colectiva al castellano | Traduction collective vers l’espagnol: Catalina Valdés, Carlos Labbé, Mónica Ríos, Romina Pistacchio, Constanza Ceresa, Javier Osorio, Catalina Donoso. Special thanks to Carolina Alonso Bejarano for editorial assistance and Edison Pérez for Spanish proofreading.
Collective French translation | Traducción colectiva al francés | Traduction collective vers le français: Alponse Girard, Frédéric Racine, and Paulin Dardel of Éditions de l’Asymétrie. Special thanks to Adrien Tournier of Éditions Entremonde and Gabrielle Gérin for editorial assistance.
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DES SALAIRES POUR LES ÉTUDIANTS
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Wages for Students, a pamphlet in the form of a blue book, was written and published anonymously by activists linked to the journal Zerowork during student strikes in Massachusetts and New York in the fall of 1975. Deeply influenced by the Wages for Housework Campaign’s analysis of capitalism and emerging in relation to struggles such as Black Power, anti-colonial resistance, and the antiwar movements, the authors sought to fight against the role of universities as conceived by capital and its state. The pamphlet debates the strategies of the student movement at the time and denounces the regime of forced unpaid work imposed every day upon millions of students. Wages for Students was an affront to and a campaign against the neoliberalization of the university, at a time when this process was just beginning. Forty years later, the highly profitable business of education not only continues to exploit the unpaid labor of the students, but now also makes them pay for it. Today, when the student debt situation has us all up to our necks, and when students around the world are refusing to continue this collaborationism, we again make this booklet available “for education against education.”
This new trilingual edition is edited by Jakob Jakobsen, María Berríos, and Malav Kanuga, and includes an introduction by George Caffentzis, Monty Neill, and John Willshire-Carrera. It also includes a transcript of a collective discussion organized by Jakob Jakobsen, Malav Kanuga, Ayreen Anastas, and Rene Gabri, following a public reading of the pamphlet by George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, Cooper Union students, and other members and friends of 16 Beaver.
Introduction to the Present Edition George Caffentzis, Monty Neill, and John Willshire-Carrera
Wages for Students (A pamphlet in the form of a blue book, 1975) The ‘Wages for Students’ Students
Wages for Debts, Students for Borrowers, Life for… 16 Beaver, New York Sunday March 3rd, 2013
Introduction to the Present Edition
George Caffentzis, Monty Neill,
and John Willshire-Carrera
Wages for Students was published anonymously in the fall of 1975 by three activists. One was an assistant professor at Brooklyn College (part of the City of New York university system) and two were graduate students at University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
It is not surprising that the New York metropolitan area and the state of Massachusetts were the sites of origin of a pamphlet on university student conditions and demands, since both had one of the