Questions about Resistance and Retaliation in the Workplace
I am conducting research on capitalist exploitation of workers in the education industry. Please consider answering some, or all, of the questions in this survey series.

These questions are adapted and tailored specifically for workers in education from Karl Marx’s pamphlet “A Workers’ Inquiry”, first published in La Revue socialiste, April 20, 1880; Transcribed for marxists.org by Curtis Price, 1997. The Angry Education Workers community used these adapted questions in our pamphlet "An Education Workers' Self-Inquiry".

You don’t have to answer all the questions. Or answer them at the same time, since this form is set so you can edit your responses at any time in the future. Please answer in as much or as little detail as your time and capacity permits.

These questions are meant to help you carry out your own self-inquiry. I encourage you to use these questions in your own physical workplace with trusted coworkers committed to building collective power in the form of unions.
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Describe any cases known to you of workers being driven out from burnout or harassment from administrations.
Do any resistance associations like unions or political collectives exist in your workplace or education sector and how are they led? Are they formal or informal? How helpful do you find them?
How many strikes and other direct actions have taken place in your trade or industry that you are aware of?
How long did these strikes or direct actions last?
Were they for the object of increasing wages, or were they organized to resist a reduction of wages, or connected with the length of the working day, or prompted by other motives? To resist charter school laws or gentrification? Something else?
What were their results?
How have the courts responded to these efforts?
Were strikes in your trade ever supported by strikes of workers belonging to other trades or industries?
What—if anything—have employers done to hinder strikes or other organizing efforts? Have they ever created their own associations with the object of lowering wages, lengthening the workday, or generally imposing their own wishes?
Have the governmental bodies regulating your institution acted to impose policies over the opposition of workers?
What are the laws on subjects like “Critical Race Theory” in your locality? Have education workers been targeted for speaking on these subjects? Has anyone self-censored in response to these laws? Does anyone flout these laws?
Are there collective efforts to push back against bans on teaching the truth in your locality such as the Pledge to Teach the Truth?
How hard does the government seem to work to call attention to and enforce laws and regulations restricting workers? What about compared to how hard they work to call attention to and enforce rules and regulations designed to restrict employers and empower workers?
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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