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What is happening to the work of academics worldwide? This book calls in the evidence (and the arguments) internationally on the way in which academic labour is being reconstructed, transformed, and reorganized in response to the global restructuring of capitalism. What is occurring is that not only are new sets of social relationships being forged in the workplace of academia, but new and complex paradoxes, dilemmas and contradictions are emerging. In all of this it is clear that there has been a major shift from indirect forms of control, to more ideological forms that work through the discourse of the corporatist notions of quality, excellence, outputs, efficiency, and effectiveness.
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"...a useful attempt to explain the nature of the work context in academic life...The book is full of detail, but its strength is the quality of its theorising...This collection is to be recommendedto teachers in higher education, depending of course on whether they wish to suffer their work, or study it." - Educational Review "...the book succeeds...in offering a theoretical critical and timely insight into the world of academic work today. The book would be an excellent reference for tutors and researchers into higher education." - Quality Assurance in Education "This is an important book...This book helps to highlight some well-advanced trends...that ought to be exposed and that they concern allof us working in universities...is surely without doubt. This is indeed a book that we need to read and debate." - The Journal of Open and Distance Learning "The essays in this collection constitute an important contribution to the debate on the changes taking place in higher education, and deserve to be widely read." - Teaching in Higher Education
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Academic Work : The Changing Labour Process in Higher Education
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