This text explores what is happening to the work of academics worldwide. It examines the evidence (and the arguments) on the way in which academic labour is being reconstructed, transformed and reorganized in response to the global restructuring of capitalism. It suggests that not only are new sets of social relationships being forged in the workplace of academia, but new and complex paradoxes, dilemmas and contradictions are emerging. The contributors conclude that there has been a major shift from indirect forms of control to more ideological forms that work through the discourse of the corporatist notions of quality, excellence, output, efficiency and effectiveness.
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"...a useful attempt to explain the nature of the work context in academic life...The book is full of detail, but its strength is the quality of its theorising...This collection is to be recommendedto teachers in higher education, depending of course on whether they wish to suffer their work, or study it." - Educational Review "...the book succeeds...in offering a theoretical critical and timely insight into the world of academic work today. The book would be an excellent reference for tutors and researchers into higher education." - Quality Assurance in Education "This is an important book...This book helps to highlight some well-advanced trends...that ought to be exposed and that they concern allof us working in universities...is surely without doubt. This is indeed a book that we need to read and debate." - The Journal of Open and Distance Learning "The essays in this collection constitute an important contribution to the debate on the changes taking place in higher education, and deserve to be widely read." - Teaching in Higher Education
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This chapter is about the development of markets in higher education, with reference to the case of Australia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
award restructuring process, equity change agents, domesticated university, faculty entrepreneurism, positional market, provisional staff, selective excellence, academic labour process, academic labour market, developing intellectual property, academic workforce, academic workers, positional competition, entrepreneurial science, dispositional knowledge, restructuring agenda, labour process theory, corporate managerialism, dual labour market, academic managers, positional goods, assessment movement, overseas marketing, higher institutions, professional labour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United Kingdom, United States, York University, Department of Education, Employment Department, University of Melbourne, Australian Financial Review, California Postsecondary Education Commission, New Zealand, Second World War, Australian Government Publishing Service, College Board, Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission, Government Printing Office, Monthly Review Press, National Governor's Association, San Francisco, University of Massachusetts, Western Australia, Carnegie Commission, Meeting the Challenge, New South Wales, Oxford University Press, Study Group New!
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This chapter is about the development of markets in higher education, with reference to the case of Australia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
award restructuring process, equity change agents, domesticated university, faculty entrepreneurism, positional market, provisional staff, selective excellence, academic labour process, academic labour market, developing intellectual property, academic workforce, academic workers, positional competition, entrepreneurial science, dispositional knowledge, restructuring agenda, labour process theory, corporate managerialism, dual labour market, academic managers, positional goods, assessment movement, overseas marketing, higher institutions, professional labour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United Kingdom, United States, York University, Department of Education, Employment Department, University of Melbourne, Australian Financial Review, California Postsecondary Education Commission, New Zealand, Second World War, Australian Government Publishing Service, College Board, Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission, Government Printing Office, Monthly Review Press, National Governor's Association, San Francisco, University of Massachusetts, Western Australia, Carnegie Commission, Meeting the Challenge, New South Wales, Oxford University Press, Study Group New!
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- Higher Education by J. S. Dawkins on 6 pages
- College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) by Ernest L. Boyer on page 85, page 97, and page 111
- Final report on page 143, page 175, and page 176
- Homo Academicus by Pierre Bourdeiu on page 132, and page 142
- Social Limits to Growth (Twentieth Century Fund Study) by Fred Hirsch on page 19, and page 38
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