‘I am a single mum. I don't feel like I can be as competitive as other people’
Experiences of precariously employed staff at UK universities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21189744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Allmer (0000-0001-5252-4314, University of Stirling, corresponding author), Thomas Allmer Thomas Allmer |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Organisation Labour & Globalisation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-641X • E-ISSN: 1745-6428 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.12.1.0062 |
| OpenAlex | W2886076257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
Universities play a central role in informational capitalism. However, higher education institutions have undergone economic, political and cultural transformations leading to competition, market orientation and new management forms. These changes have effects on many levels, including the working conditions and practices of individuals involved in the information gaining process. This article aims to find out how the existing working conditions and practices at universities form the meanings, identities and experiences of individuals by focusing on precariously employed academics. I address this question based on a theoretical analysis and qualitative interviews with casualised academic staff
Biology and political orientation · Capitalism · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Higher Education Governance and Development · Management and Organizational Studies
Academic Capitalism
Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism
Burnout in university teaching staff
Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education
Storming Heaven
Classical Political Economy and the Role of Universities in the New Knowledge Economy
Effects of project-based research work on the career paths of young academics
Classical Political Economy and the Role of Universities in the New Knowledge Economy
Cognitive Capitalism' and the Rat-Race
The new neoliberal subjects? Young/er academics’ constructions of professional identity
Precarious, always-on and flexible
Managing the Academics
Living with the H-Index? Metric Assemblages in the Contemporary Academy
Just How Managed is the McUniversity? Craig Prichard, Hugh Willmott
Flexible and Fixed Times Working in the Academy
Craft, Hierarchy and Bureaucracy
The Mental Labor Problem
Adjuncts and More Adjuncts
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 | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |