The Transformation of Academic Work Fractured Futures?

James Goodman is Professor of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has investigated changing concepts of academic work and was a lead researcher for the project that led to this book. He is co-author of Academic Casualization in Australia (2010) and Hop...

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Main Authors: Goodman, James, Parfitt, Claire (Author), Yasukawa, Keiko (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Palgrave Critical University Studies
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Crisis of Higher Education: International and Australian
  • 3. Struggles Against the Precariousness and Fragmentation of Academic Work
  • 4. The Australian Context and Background to the Research
  • 5. From Precarity to Security? ‘We’ve got to do a better job for the casuals’
  • 6. Managerial Motivations and Contexts
  • 7. Silence in the Academy? Impacts of Role Fragmentation
  • 8. Teaching and Research in the 21st Century University. 9. Conclusion