General questions for education workers
I am conducting research about capitalist exploitation of workers in the education industry. Please consider answering some or all of the questions. You can come back and edit/add to your responses at any time.

The questions in this survey series are adapted specifically for education workers from Karl Marx's pamphlet "A Workers' Inquiry", which was first published in La Revue Socialiste on April 20, 1880. They were originally composed as a zine, which you can access here or download a printable version from our website.

I encourage you to use these questions in the process of organizing collective power in your workplace.
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What is your job role?
Where do you work?
Do you work in a school, daycare, museum, library, archive, or another educational workplace?
Are you classified as support staff? (custodians, security guards, maintenance, grounds keeping, dedicated aide, behavior intervention, etc.)
What is the age, gender, racial, religious, etc composition of the workforce?
Is there sufficient work for your existence or are you forced to combine it with a second or third job? If you have another job, what is it? When do you work it?
Do you work with your hands, head, or with the help of machinery? All three?
How many employees are there?
State the number of administrators and other employees who are not rank-and-file hired workers.
Which rank-and-file employees have close relationships with management/administration?
Are you a worker in the building from staffing agencies or on other forms of contract/temporary employment? Has your number grown in your institution since the start of the pandemic?
How much time do you lose in your commute? How do you get to work? Can you afford to live in the community you serve? If yes, do you struggle to afford it?
What are the general physical, intellectual and moral conditions of life of the working people employed in your trade or industry?
If you work at home, describe the conditions of your work room. Do you use working tools or computers? Do you have recourse to the help of your children or other persons? Do you work for private clients, or for an employer? Do you deal with them direct or through an agent?
Is Information Technology (IT) staff employed on-site, or are they contracted out? Is there a management company that employs them directly instead?
Compare the price of the commodities you manufacture or the services you render with your pay. 

For example, in Washington D.C., each general education student comes with $24,000 in public funds. Special education students $31,000. In the 2023-2024 school year these figures will each increase by 5 percent. Most school staff, especially instructional staff, labor on dozens of students at a time every day. With just 50 students, a classroom teacher in the District is helping produce $1.2 million in human capital. Divide by 180—the usual minimal number of instructional days—and you discover that the average teacher produces more than $6,000 of human capital every day. Their starting annual pay rarely exceeds $60,000 (a daily wage of maybe $300), and even highly experienced teachers max out at $90,000 in a city with one of the highest costs of living in the country. Most teachers around the country make significantly less since DC has the 4 the highest teacher pay in the entire United States. Many other school staff members make even less.
Do you have any suggestions for how to improve this set of surveys? I would especially appreciate any suggestions for new questions and revisions to make existing questions more inclusive.
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