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Questions about Employment Arrangements and Pay
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 agreements do you have with your employer? Are you engaged
by the day, week, month, etc.?
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What conditions are laid down regarding dismissals or leaving employment? Are you at will employed? If you are in the United States, the answer is almost certainly ‘yes’
unless you have an officially certified union at your work
.
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Are you paid weekly, biweekly, monthly, or on some other arrangement?
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What are the details of any fringe benefits offered by your employer, if available?
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Has your pay ever been delayed? Have you ever had to go into credit card or other forms of debt as a result?
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How have budget cuts affected the institution in which you work?
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Are wages paid directly by the employer, through the staffing agencies, through some other means?
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If wages are paid by contractors or other intermediaries, what are the conditions of your contract?
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What is the amount of your money wages by the day? The week? The month? The year?
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What are the wages of the most marginalized workers in your institution?
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What was the highest daily wage last month in your shop?
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What were your own wages during the same time, and if you have a family, what were the wages of your partner and children? Does your partner make less, the same, or significantly more than you?
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Are wages paid entirely in money, or in some other form? Does your boss/administration ever throw pizza parties or similar events?
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What are the prices of necessary commodities? A cost of living calculator (search “cost of living calculator” and you will find plenty of options) is an easy method of getting an approximate sense of price levels in your area.
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Try and draw up a weekly, monthly, and yearly budget of your income and expenditure for self and family. Have you noticed, in your personal experience, a bigger rise in the price of immediate necessities, e.g., rent, food, etc., than in wages?
Yes
No
Not sure
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What are the salaries of upper management/administration? What bonuses and extra benefits do they seem to receive?
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Many education technology (ed-tech) companies, including communication platforms and providers of digital assessments, claim that they make educators jobs easier. How true is that in your experience
?
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Many ed-tech companies also claim that their products help educators become more productive. How true is that for you
?
If you have become more productive, have you or any other rank-and-file workers received any raises as a result?
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Have there been any pay raises in your workplace? Do they match up with rises in inflation/prices?
Yes
No
Unsure
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Describe any interruptions in employment caused by changes in fashions and partial and general crises like Covid-19. Describe your own involuntary unemployment.
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Are there any workers who have come out of retirement, or never retired after 65, in your workplace?
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How many years can a worker of average health be employed in your job role?
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If you experience any disabilities that affect your daily experience at work in any way, do you receive any of the necessary accommodations? What are the laws on this in your area? What is your pay compared to other workers?
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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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