Please note: this event will be held in person.
Calling trade unionists and tenant union members with a story to tell!
How can the working class record, document and share the lessons of its own struggles? As well as understanding the importance of telling our own histories, we need access to the skills and equipment that enables us to pass knowledge on effectively.
In our third workshop, archivists from the Glasgow Zine Library will talk us through the building and cataloguing an archive collection, with the opportunity to learn more about GZL's materials and contribute to the cataloguing of GHSA's material.
The Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive aims to support both trade unionists and tenant union members to do this through building an archive of housing movements, purchasing equipment for the movement and training people to take this process through themselves.
The last few years has witnessed a resurgence of joint action between housing and labour movements, part of a long tradition in Glasgow – from campaigns around the Rent Act in the 1970s to the leading role of building workers in stopping the sell-off of council housing in the 1950s, and the famous coalitions of the 1915 rent strikes.
This workshop is Part 3 of a 3 part series with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive. You do not have to attend all 3 but it is recommended so you can see how they interconnect.
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About GHSA:
The Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (GHSA) is an evolving project to document, share and learn from our city’s long history of housing movements. We believe that social change happens most effectively when the working class gets to know – and tell – its own histories from below, and a core part of the GHSA’s project is to activate historical material through popular political education, discussions, workshops, walking tours, film screenings, exhibitions and publishing. We want to show how over a 150 years of rent strikes, demonstrations, occupations and campaigning people have fought and win in the city, and can continue to shape it today. This programme is organised by GHSA collective members Joey Simons, Kirsteen Paton, Kirsten Lloyd and Kate Wilson.
Ticket information
There will be 10 attendees maximum, and the event will feature comfort breaks. During this event, attendees will participate in: Talk / Lecture, Group Discussions, Break out rooms / Small group discussions, Hands on activities, Visual presentation, Eating/drink
This event will take place at the GZL space on Albert Road in Govanhill. You can find directions here.
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