Academic Work: The Changing Labour Process in Higer Education

by John Smyth (Editor)

Calls up the international evidence and arguments to investigate how academic labor is being reconstructed, transformed, and reorganized in response to the global restructuring of capitalism. Illustrates new social relations being forced in the academic workplace; new paradoxes, dilemmas, and contractions to replace the old ones; and a shift from indirect control to more ideological forms working through corporatist notions of quality, excellence, output, efficiency, and effectiveness. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

213 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1995

About the author

Research professor of education at the University of Ballarat. He is author/editor of fifteen books including, most recently, Teachers in the Middle: Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent
Years of Schooling (with Peter McInerney, Peter Lang Publishing, 2007) and “Dropping Out” Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School (with Robert Hattam and others, Peter Lang Publishing, 2004). His research interests include policy ethnographies of schooling, issues of social justice, community renewal, and
policy sociology of students’ lives and teachers’ work