Topic: Contract faculty
Contract faculty, Equity and social justice, Health and safety, Politics, Universities and the academic mission
Care work during COVID: A letter from home about privilege, resilience, and capitalism in the academy
Universities claim to re-shape the social, scientific, and economic contours of society for the better. Has the ongoing exploitation of precariously employed […]
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Contract faculty, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
Universities have thrived despite past disruptions and could grow even stronger after COVID-19
This past century, universities have proven to be nimble and entrepreneurial even while adroitly portraying themselves as guardians of tradition. (Shutterstock) In […]
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How the government restricts free and fair collective bargaining: An examination of faculty bargaining history as constrained by the “Ontario Labour Relations Act”
Looking back over half a century of bargaining by university faculty and librarians, it is clear that not all academics have seen […]
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Bargaining in the shadow of BC’s Public Sector Employers’ Council
For three decades, the wages, benefits, and language British Columbia’s faculty associations are able to negotiate have been restricted by the government. […]
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How wage theft and casual work are built into Australian university business models
The COVID crisis has exposed the destructive consequences of an over-reliance on casual labour across the economy. Australian universities provide one of […]
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Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Funding, Tuition and student fees
Low funding for universities puts students at risk for cycles of poverty, especially in the wake of COVID-19
Particularly during an economic crisis, graduating from university should not sentence students to a lifetime of debt. (Shutterstock) Postsecondary education has consistently […]
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Capitalist creep on campus: the largest, quietest privatisation in UK history – it’s why we’re striking
Pexels For the next week and a half, many UK university lecturers will be on strike again, but who outside of academia […]
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Trending towards inequality: Understanding the role of universities in the rise of contract academic work
The 1990s are key to understanding how Ontario’s postsecondary institutions have systematically entrenched economic inequality between contract and tenure-stream faculty. Even with […]
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