On the documentary - Under such unfavorable circumstances few students from the University Campus (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) decided to make a film with no prior experience and without any technical know-how or money in order to spread awareness amongst the students and other contractual workers regarding continued exploitation by the contractor-administration nexus. The film has been named ‘Sahar Se Pahle’ or ‘Before the Dawn’ to stress the fact that these workers start their work even before other people wake up – and their exploitation goes unnoticed. Moreover the name also hints at the ‘dawn’ which is yet to come, when the producers of wealth shall actually be the masters of wealth. // .... I was interviewing a few of the literally thousands of American radicals who left the university for the factory in the 1970s .... – thousands of young radicals, many issuing from the student milieu, began to seriously rethink how their politics related to the struggles of workers outside the university context... But struggling where we are has its own tensions. Universities don’t just employ teachers. The university employs an endless staff of librarians, custodial workers, security guards, cafeteria workers, and all the other workers who keep the institution running. Knowledge workers come into contact with these other workers every day. Yet, despite the fact that they all work for the same boss, the internal divisions resulting from these different roles are quite pronounced ... ... or simply those living on the boundaries of the university community, always afraid an expanding campus will expel them further out. The fundamental question, then, remains that of “linking up” with other workers outside the university in a coordinated, strategic, and organized way. // (From viewpointmag/2014/03/27/between-the-ivory-tower-and-the-assembly-line/ - thanks for this Brendan, though I am still giving thought to the knowledge workers category! :| )
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 19:27:11 +0000
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