Robert Ovetz
Biographic Data
| ID | 258106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Ovetz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Ovetz |
| SIGNATURE | OVETZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4986-6553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education, written by Berry, Joe and Helena Worthen
Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: A Conversation with Robert Ovetz and Jenny Chan
Workers’ Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction
The global supply chain crisis during the pandemic provides an opportunity to reflect on the vulnerabilities of the just-in-time model of capitalist production. As capital studies and prepares for risks to the global supply chain, so must workers if we are make global systemic changes needed to reverse the many catastrophic crises facing humanity. The articles in this forum re-examine unions and global workers organizing in seven countries to mov…
We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few
C. Parenti. Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder
The Algorithmic University: On-Line Education, Learning Management Systems, and the Struggle over Academic Labor
The use of on-line education (OLE) to deliver higher education using learning management systems (LMS) has received growing critical attention for its reliance on precarious faculty, high dropout and failure rates, and as a form of privatization. While these critiques are well grounded, they overlook the role of OLE as a strategy for rationalizing teaching and deskilling academic labor in order to produce more self-disciplined precarious 'platfor…
Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives
Organizing at Deliveroo
When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921
The United States looks today much like it did in the late 19th to early 20th century. Open class conflict is disappearing, strikes are becoming rare, unions are declining, corporate power is growing, and work is insecure and contingent. When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores one of the most tumultuous times in United States history. Self-organised workers recomposed their power by devising new strategies and tactics to…
The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century. Dario Azzellini, Michael G. Kraft, eds. Brill, NL, 2017. Historical Materialism Book Series 150
Journal of Labor and SocietyVolume 21, Issue 4 p. 631-638 BOOK REVIEW The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century. Dario Azzellini, Michael G. Kraft, eds. Brill, NL, 2017. Historical Materialism Book Series 150 Robert Ovetz, Robert Ovetz orcid.org/0000-0003-4986-6553 San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USASearch for more papers by this author Robert Ovetz, Robert Ovetz orcid.org/0000-0003-498…
Political economy of labor repression in the United States
Kolin’s book Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States seeks to plug a vast hole in labor history. The canons of labor history are replete with accounts of campaigns to repress org
Click to save and return to course: Online education, adjunctification, and the disciplining of academic labour
There has been little analysis of how neoliberal adjunctification and online education (OLE) are shaping a new academic division of labour in US colleges and universities. OLE rationalises academic labour by separating it from the delivery of educational content while transforming learning into the self-disciplined completion of sequential tasks (e.g. ‘competency-based learning’) under the panoptic surveillance of online course management systems…
When Hephaestus Fell to Earth: Harry Braverman and the New Division of Academic Labor
Braverman’s analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of the neoliberal assault on higher education on academic labor. Much like Taylorism a century ago, adjunctification of the faculty, online education, and data driven planning are rationalizing academic labor. Teaching is being “unbundled” and its components parts automated, outsourced, and transferred to a growing middle level administration. As a resu…
Response to R. Jamil Jonna and Chris Smith
Rocking the Schoolhouse: Re-reading “Schoolhouse Rock!” in the College Classroom
Turning Resistance into Rebellion: Student Movements and the Entrepreneurialization of the Universities
Ovetz argues that higher education worldwide is becoming 'entrepreneurialized' as universities are forced to organize themselves increasingly as profit-oriented businesses. This involves commercial partnerships with private capital and the State; and the growing exploitation of both teaching staff and students. However, there is also growing resistance to this trend from students, staff, and local communities. Ovetz illustrates his argument by de…
Turning Resistance into Rebellion: Student Movements and the Entrepreneurialization of the Universities
Ovetz argues that higher education worldwide is becoming 'entrepreneurialized' as universities are forced to organize themselves increasingly as profit-oriented businesses. This involves commercial partnerships with private capital and the State; and the growing exploitation of both teaching staff and students. However, there is also growing resistance to this trend from students, staff, and local communities. Ovetz illustrates his argument by de…
The Algorithmic University: On-Line Education, Learning Management Systems, and the Struggle over Academic Labor
The use of on-line education (OLE) to deliver higher education using learning management systems (LMS) has received growing critical attention for its reliance on precarious faculty, high dropout and failure rates, and as a form of privatization. While these critiques are well grounded, they overlook the role of OLE as a strategy for rationalizing teaching and deskilling academic labor in order to produce more self-disciplined precarious 'platfor…
When Hephaestus Fell to Earth: Harry Braverman and the New Division of Academic Labor
Braverman’s analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of the neoliberal assault on higher education on academic labor. Much like Taylorism a century ago, adjunctification of the faculty, online education, and data driven planning are rationalizing academic labor. Teaching is being “unbundled” and its components parts automated, outsourced, and transferred to a growing middle level administration. As a resu…
Turning Resistance into Rebellion: Student Movements and the Entrepreneurialization of the Universities
Ovetz argues that higher education worldwide is becoming 'entrepreneurialized' as universities are forced to organize themselves increasingly as profit-oriented businesses. This involves commercial partnerships with private capital and the State; and the growing exploitation of both teaching staff and students. However, there is also growing resistance to this trend from students, staff, and local communities. Ovetz illustrates his argument by de…
Rocking the Schoolhouse: Re-reading “Schoolhouse Rock!” in the College Classroom
When Hephaestus Fell to Earth: Harry Braverman and the New Division of Academic Labor
Braverman’s analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of the neoliberal assault on higher education on academic labor. Much like Taylorism a century ago, adjunctification of the faculty, online education, and data driven planning are rationalizing academic labor. Teaching is being “unbundled” and its components parts automated, outsourced, and transferred to a growing middle level administration. As a resu…
Response to R. Jamil Jonna and Chris Smith
Click to save and return to course: Online education, adjunctification, and the disciplining of academic labour
There has been little analysis of how neoliberal adjunctification and online education (OLE) are shaping a new academic division of labour in US colleges and universities. OLE rationalises academic labour by separating it from the delivery of educational content while transforming learning into the self-disciplined completion of sequential tasks (e.g. ‘competency-based learning’) under the panoptic surveillance of online course management systems…
When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921
The United States looks today much like it did in the late 19th to early 20th century. Open class conflict is disappearing, strikes are becoming rare, unions are declining, corporate power is growing, and work is insecure and contingent. When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores one of the most tumultuous times in United States history. Self-organised workers recomposed their power by devising new strategies and tactics to…
The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century. Dario Azzellini, Michael G. Kraft, eds. Brill, NL, 2017. Historical Materialism Book Series 150
Journal of Labor and SocietyVolume 21, Issue 4 p. 631-638 BOOK REVIEW The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century. Dario Azzellini, Michael G. Kraft, eds. Brill, NL, 2017. Historical Materialism Book Series 150 Robert Ovetz, Robert Ovetz orcid.org/0000-0003-4986-6553 San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USASearch for more papers by this author Robert Ovetz, Robert Ovetz orcid.org/0000-0003-498…
Political economy of labor repression in the United States
Kolin’s book Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States seeks to plug a vast hole in labor history. The canons of labor history are replete with accounts of campaigns to repress org
Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives
Organizing at Deliveroo
C. Parenti. Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder
The Algorithmic University: On-Line Education, Learning Management Systems, and the Struggle over Academic Labor
The use of on-line education (OLE) to deliver higher education using learning management systems (LMS) has received growing critical attention for its reliance on precarious faculty, high dropout and failure rates, and as a form of privatization. While these critiques are well grounded, they overlook the role of OLE as a strategy for rationalizing teaching and deskilling academic labor in order to produce more self-disciplined precarious 'platfor…
Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: A Conversation with Robert Ovetz and Jenny Chan
Workers’ Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction
The global supply chain crisis during the pandemic provides an opportunity to reflect on the vulnerabilities of the just-in-time model of capitalist production. As capital studies and prepares for risks to the global supply chain, so must workers if we are make global systemic changes needed to reverse the many catastrophic crises facing humanity. The articles in this forum re-examine unions and global workers organizing in seven countries to mov…
We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few
Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education, written by Berry, Joe and Helena Worthen
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Politics (4 works)