Politics of Service User Labour - The Empowerment Council

A Zine created by Lucy Costa and Lisa Walter, dedicated to exploring the history of service user labour.

The topics we cover include:

1. Why service user labour is political:

▪ The historical context

▪ The economic context

2. Identity-based labour and working conditions:

▪ Why linking labour to identity is problematic

▪ Ambiguous definitions of labour
▪ Precarious labour ▪ Labour fragmentation
▪ Emotional labour
▪ How this relates to the economic context

3. Messy stuff: Complicity and accountability
▪ The potential for complicity in service user labour

▪ Honorariums
▪ Entitlement versus accommodation
▪ Community accountability
▪ Service user/survivor organization accountability

4. Where do we go from here..?

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