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Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education: Neoliberal Policies of Funding and Management
Gupta Suman
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This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and research work, and re-orientations of academic life (as students, researchers, teachers) generally, which are taking place around the world, achieve exactly the opposite of what they claim: though ostensibly undertaken to facilitate employment, these moves actually produce unemployment both ... Read more
This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and research work, and re-orientations of academic life (as students, researchers, teachers) generally, which are taking place around the world, achieve exactly the opposite of what they claim: though ostensibly undertaken to facilitate employment, these moves actually produce unemployment both ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Palgrave Critical University Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137493231
SKU
V9781137493231
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About Gupta Suman
Suman Gupta is Chair in Literature and Cultural History at The Open University, UK. His published books include Re-Reading Harry Potter (2003, 2009), Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies (2007), Imagining Iraq (2011), Consumable Texts in Contemporary India (2015) and Philology and Global English Studies (2015). Jernej ... Read more
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