Komplexe Konstruktionen

Moser, Sibylle

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“…The professorate is being stripped of power over hiring and firing, scheduling, curriculum planning, resource allocation, assessment, course content, and the other elements of shared governance. 6 To understand how to organize, it is necessary to further study the changing division of labor of teaching to develop new tactics, strategies, and objectives to organize as others have done in the past. The objective of this focus is not to restore higher education to a mythical past that never existed.…”

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Migrant Mindworkers and the New Division of Academic Labor

Ovetz¹

2015

Journal of Labor and Society

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The reorganization of higher education has been made possible by a new division of labor that is rationalizing and deskilling college teaching. These new relations of academic labor are disempowering the professorate by transferring control over teaching to a growing middle management and automating it as online distance learning. In order to respond to this threat to higher education, it is necessary to shift the focus from the commercialization of higher education to the adjunctification of the professorate. This requires a critical rethinking of organizational tactics, strategies, and objectives of academic labor organizing.Higher education is being reorganized. Privatization, disinvestment, online courses, for-profit colleges, tuition and fees, budget cuts, centralization and outsourcing of maintenance, food service and administrative services, and the use of "adjuncts" like myself have become rampant in the past four decades. The logic of the market subtly transforming the very work of teaching is obscured by discussions about commercialization. A new division of academic labor is being gradually imposed in order to expand control over academic labor, produce labor power better disciplined for contingent work, and design and build the technology to exploit that labor power. In order to develop new tactics, strategies, and objectives to respond to these threats, it is necessary to do a class analysis of the new division of academic labor. From the Mass to the Taylorized UniversityThe academic labor of the professorate is being rationalized, fragmented, deskilled, standardized, and disempowered, a process commonly called "adjunctification." This Taylorization of academic labor is proceeding in order to increase "output" of both the exploitation of adjunct faculty and the students disciplined and trained for flexible, part-time, contingent work. 1 The adjunctification of academic labor is the dominant model for the relations of contingent labor throughout the economy. 2 Prior to World War II, higher education almost entirely served the elite and played little direct role in the disciplining of labor power. However, the wildcat bs_bs_banner

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