Research handbook on academic labour markets / edited by Glenda Strachan (Emeritus Professor, Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith University, Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strachan, Glenda, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Labor market.

Universities and colleges--Employees--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Universities and colleges.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"This Handbook addresses the changing nature of academic labour markets, as they respond to moving university goals and developments in the measurement of research and teaching. Experts examine case studies from across the Global North and South and consider key issues such as equity, diversity, cross-border employment, and the precarity of academic labour. The Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets highlights how national university systems interact with international policies. Chapters include in-depth research on the decline in permanent, tenured employment and the increase in temporary, insecure work, culminating in uncertain or non-existent career paths for many academics. Contributing authors discuss intersectional initiatives to increase the gender and ethnic diversity of academic staff, as well as complex topics such as third space work, for-profit institutions, online education, entrepreneurial gig research, work-life balance and the role of trade unions. Ultimately, this Handbook argues for new approaches to organising academic work, reinforcing the priority of serving the public good. Comprehensive and innovative, this Research Handbook is a crucial read for scholars of higher education leadership and management, education policy, labour policy, and sociology of work. It will also benefit university staff and researchers considering and reflecting on their own careers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Part I. Academic labour markets

1. Academic labour markets in the 21st century: An overview / Glenda Strachan

2. The contradiction of the corporate university: Academic inefficiency and the iron cage of bureaucracy / Clyde W. Barrow

3. Academic labour and the rise of asia: Mobility in a multi-polar knowledge world / Anthony Welch and Futao Huang

4. Academic and professional identities in higher education: From 'working in third space' to 'third space professionals' / Celia Whitchurch

Part II. Conditions of work: Precarity

5. The degrading of the professoriate in the United States: Freedom, creativity, and economic dynamism imperiled / Jon D. Wisman and Quentin Hedges Duroy

6. Contingent academic labour in public and private colleges and universities: The diminishing status of college professors / Dell P. Champlin and Janet T. Knoedler

7. The gig academy: Changing the global face of academy labour / Adrianna Kezar and Jude Paul Matias Dizon

8. The future of research careers in academia and the rise of the entrepreneurial gig researcher / Anne Kovalainen and Seppo Poutanen

9. Academic staff trade unions: The past, present and future of faculty unionisation in Canada / David Robinson

10. Challenging the fixed-term contract: The difficulties and prospects of organising Germany's academic precariat / Alexander Gallas and Anil Shah

Part III. Equity and diversity in the academic labour market

11. Institutional inertia as a tool of institutional racism: Understanding impediments to social change at an english university / Vini Lander, Mark McCormack and Liliana Belkin

12. The gendered interaction of discipline and role specialisation in academic labour markets / David Peetz, Carolyn Troup and Glenda Strachan

13. Promoting and sustaining gender equality through athena swan in an Irish case study university / Eileen Drew

14. Understanding the slow progression to gender equality: The dynamics between inequality and equality practices / Marieke van den Brink

15. Academics and work-life balance: Deconstructing a concept and outlining an intersectional framework for advancing research / Rodrigo Rosa

16. The gendered challenges of working from home in 2020-2021: An australian-canadian study / Shalene Werth, David Peetz, Carolyn Troup and Glenda Strachan

Part IV. National academic labour markets

17. Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa's academic labour and its racialised labour force / Dina Zoe Belluigi

18. The contested modernisation of peruvian universities / Omar Manky and Juan Dolores

19. Internationalisation and the precarity of academic work in indonesian universities / Nurdiana Gaus

20. Crises and change: New zealand academic labour markets / Sereana Naepi

21. Polarisation and casualisation: The changing academic workforce at australian universities / Peter Woelert and Gwilym Croucher

22. Academic labour markets in China: Building excellence through competition / Huan Li and Hugo Horta

23. The transformation of academic employment in Japan from a closed to an open system / Akira Arimoto

24. A long farewell to napoleon? Institutional change and patterns of differentiation in the French academic labour market / Julien Barrier and Emmanuelle Picard

25. Professors' opportunity hoarding and 'hamster wheels' in the German academic labour market / Christian Schneijderberg and Nicolai Götze

26. The academic labour market in Canada: Tides of change / Shelagh Campbell

27. Tenure in the neoliberal era: Implications for a segmented academic labour market in the usa / Quentin Hedges Duroy

Part V. The future

28. On crises, opportunities and the academic profession / Janice Newson and Claire Polster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781803926865 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.