Precarious, always-on and flexible
A case study of academics as information workers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11486751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Allmer (0000-0001-5252-4314, University of Stirling, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 381-395 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-3231 • E-ISSN: 1460-3705 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0267323118783794 |
| OpenAlex | W2810876832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 22 |
The higher education landscape has changed in the past decades. The neoliberal restructuring of universities has led to transformations such as reducing public expenditure, allocating resources based on competition and quasi-market disciplines. These structural transformations have also an effect on the working conditions, practices and relations of subjects within universities. Questions that need to be addressed: How do different working contexts and conditions in the academia shape feelings of autonomy, flexibility and reputation on one hand and precariousness, overwork and dissatisfaction on the other? What are the broader political realities and potentials in terms of solidarity, participation and democracy at universities? I address these questions based on a theoretical analysis and qualitative interviews with precariously employed academics
Autonomy · Competition (biology · Democracy · Economics · Feeling · Flexibility (engineering · Higher education · Industrial sociology · Labour economics · Management · Managerialism · Marketization · Neoliberalism (international relations · Overwork · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarious work · Public relations · Reputation · Restructuring · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Work (physics · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Vagues de luttes dans le travail. Décomposition et recomposition des pratiques de recherche dans les Universités
Cooperação internacional em Serviço Social
Experiences of precarious work within higher education institutions
Structural reforms and business ethos in universities under Estonia’s post-2008 austerity regime
Gender equity in academic knowledge production
Against gig academia
Cruel Optimism and Precarious Employment
The neoliberalization of academia
Neoliberalism and Academia in Communication and Media Studies
‘I am a single mum. I don't feel like I can be as competitive as other people’
“Publish?” “Perish . . . Oh No” An Ethological Interrogation of Sense-Making and Resistance in Word Association as Inquiry
Rethinking Doctoral Education
“They talk and talk, they sell and sell … the victory of the technician over the intellectual”
Adopting a Soft Transdisciplinary Approach via Inquiry/Project Based Learning
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house
A Precarious Future
Temporary academics in South African higher education institutions
Sono una madre single. Non sento di poter essere competitiva quanto altri»
I don’t want to be a vagrant for the rest of my life’
Digital communication, health & wellbeing in universities
The lived experience of female academics with long-term conditions impacting on energy levels and/or cognitive function
Challenges of cultural industry knowledge exchange in live performance audience research
Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers
On Class and Elitism in Archaeology
Self-tracking and metric codification in digital infrastructures for scholarly communication
More to prove and more to lose’
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education
Academics ‘Staying On’ Post Retirement Age in English University Departments of Education
Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism
The 'Work-Work Balance' in higher education
Tolling academics
The temporalities of free knowledge work
Content analysis
Academic Capitalism
Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism
Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education
Classical Political Economy and the Role of Universities in the New Knowledge Economy
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Digital Sociology
Digital diploma mills
Classical Political Economy and the Role of Universities in the New Knowledge Economy
The new neoliberal subjects? Young/er academics’ constructions of professional identity
The great university gamble
Qualitative research methods for the social sciences
Just How Managed is the McUniversity? Craig Prichard, Hugh Willmott
The Mental Labor Problem
Adjuncts and More Adjuncts
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism
If You're So Smart, Why Are You under Surveillance? Universities, Neoliberalism, and New Public Management
Academics, Cultural Workers and Critical Labour Studies
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |