Academic labour
Lost souls? The demoralization of academic labour in the measured university
... Using Biesta’s work I argue that performativity measures only that which can be easily measured quantitatively. This has resulted in universities valuing only quantitative indicators of economic effectiveness and ...
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On the Alienation of Academic Labour and the Possibilities for Mass Intellectuality
... alienated labour as a site of the proletarianisation of academic labour, it is possible to ask: against this structural, secular alienation, might academic labour be re-evaluated for ...
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Hacking in the University: Contesting the Valorisation of Academic Labour
... between labour and capital, I try to show later in the paper that from its founding, MIT has been the model capitalist ...valorising academic labour in the service of ...
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Introduction: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism
... of academic labour is subject to new forms of control, surveillance and ...reveal, academic labour and academics in general are also facing immense chal- lenges in terms of state control and ...
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An Autonomist Marxist Perspective on Productive and Un-productive Academic Labour
... productive/unproductive labour within capitalist production are characterised by an antagonistic ...of labour for capital, but also that the material movement underlying capitalist expansion creates ...
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On the Abolition of Academic Labour: The Relationship Between Intellectual Workers and Mass Intellectuality
... However, in this process of commercialising education a tension emerges from the increasingly limited spaces that are available for productive as opposed to rentier or interest- bearing capital (Marx 1992). As a result, ...
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The Segmentation of Academic Labour: A Canadian Example
... the academic labour market. One mechanism to regulate labour supply is through our own ...the labour market or the future employability of the students, but rather to the availability of ...
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Outside Offers and the Gender Pay Gap: Empirical Evidence from the UK Academic Labour Market
... in the sample do have significantly different average characteristics other than age. In fact, the difference in age explains many of the observed differences in variable means between men and women. For example, the ...
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The Perestroika of Academic Labour: The Neoliberal Transformation of Higher Education and the Resurrection of the ‘Command Economy’.
... rhetorical appeals to private enterprise and deregulation, the structure of higher education (HE) as it emerges from its neoliberal restructuring and reorientation (the Russian perestroika captures this conception) bears ...
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Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism (Combined PDF of all articles)
... trigger labour segmenta- tions within the academic workforce leading to increased hierarchies and potentials of ...the academic workforce. ‘Faced with a restive mass of immaterial labour, ...
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The perestroika of academic labour: The neoliberal transformation of higher education and the resurrection of the ‘command economy’
... rhetorical appeals to private enterprise and deregulation, the structure of higher education (HE) as it emerges from its neoliberal restructuring and reorientation (the Russian perestroika captures this conception) bears ...
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Theorising and Analysing Academic Labour
... an academic employment contract is its permanent/open-ended or temporary ...fixed-term academic staff worked at universities in the UK in the academic year ...75,560 academic atypical staff in ...
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Manual Labour, Intellectual Labour and Digital (Academic) Labour. The Practice/Theory Debate in the Digital Humanities
... general academic ethos that has incorporated this very logic and urges scholars never to seek truth outside the borders of their scholarly field, the apparent necessary reunion of theory and practice may not be ...
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Digital Labour in the University: Understanding the Transformations of Academic Work in the UK
... In the context of teaching, the relationship between students and teachers is in- creasingly being mediated by digital technologies. The most obvious example of this is the ubiquity of email communication. Teachers in ...
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The labour of academia
... We would like our students to be able to study without having to pay tuition fees, to choose what they wish to study solely on the basis of their interests, to graduate without debt, and to not have to worry about ...
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Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation of Exercise into Labour
... “immaterial labour” by problematizing the distinction between material and immaterial as self-tracking highlights that all of the work undertaken as “digital labour” is corporeal on some ...“cognitive ...
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Adjusting for Quality of Labour and Labour Services in Productivity Measurement
... overall labour quality measure due to fact that the peak productive age group did not disproportionately increase their share of total hours worked during the ...
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Academic Assistance. Academic Computing. Academic Honors. Semester Honors. Academic Information and Regulations
... students’ academic success, the college has developed Academic ...Standards. Academic standards are measured by two criteria: the Course Completion Standard and the Grade Point Average ...measure ...
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Labour market performance of immigrants in the UK labour market
... When immigrants arrive in the destination country, their labour market productivity is likely to be different from that of UK-born individuals. This may be because of different levels of education, socio-economic ...
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Effecetiveness of Labour Court in Labour Dispute Management in Zimbabwe
... the Labour Court, which in my view contribute to the uneven flow of work in the unending ...the Labour Court suggests a system that is not well functioning because every month cases pending increases ...
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