text: is a founding member of #CoronaContract and a Lecturer in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.
  Our Consciousness and Theirs: Further Thoughts on the Class Character of University Worker Activism
  Aimée Lê and Jordan Osserman January 18, 2022
  Class consciousness does not automatically develop from poor working conditions (nor, as we will address, should an analysis of our working conditions be restricted only to questions of hours, pay, etc., without including ideological aspects of work); rather, consciousness develops when individual demands are actively made political and collective: in other words, through class struggle.