The Proletarianisation of Academic Labour in Australia

Autor/inn/en	McCarthy, Greg; Song, Xianlin; Jayasuriya, Kanishka
Titel	The Proletarianisation of Academic Labour in Australia
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 36 (2017) 5, S.1017-1030 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2016.1263936
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; College Faculty; Political Issues; Labor Market; Educational Administration; Social Influences; Teacher Attitudes; Governance; Professional Identity; Teacher Selection; Power Structure; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fakultät; Politischer Faktor; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Sozialer Einfluss; Lehrerverhalten; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Australien
Abstract	Australian universities over the last 25 years have been unified, internationalised, corporatised and become mass educational providers. This process is replicated globally as a response to rapid mass enrolments and marketisation. In the light of these changes, a corporate and managerial model has been identified, which has been the subject of growing discontent within the academic workforce. However, from a political economy perspective there is a lack of understanding on how and by what means academic labour has been commodified in this process. This paper, using Australia as its case study, argues that the managerial culture has alienated academics from their labour. This has resulted in them losing control over their skills and thus becoming disassociated from the educational purposes of their work. Higher education has been subjected to systemic regulatory governance that has fundamentally transformed the nature of academic labour. We contend that the regulatory state has reached so deep down into the university that academics have effectively become a de-professionalised and proletarianised labour force. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01