Topic: Contract faculty

Care work during COVID: A letter from home about privilege, resilience, and capitalism in the academy

Soma Chatterjee

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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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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Editorial Matters: The collective challenges of COVID-19

Ben Lewis

This has been a challenging year. We were just putting the final touches on this issue of Academic Matters when the COVID-19 […]

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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”

Donna Gray

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

Annabree Fairweather

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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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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Editorial Matters: Economics and inequality

Ben Lewis

It is commonly understood that postsecondary education ought to focus on fostering curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, and vigorous debate, with the goal […]

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Trending towards inequality: Understanding the role of universities in the rise of contract academic work

Kimberly Ellis-Hale and Glen Copplestone

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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