Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education

Chapter 1 Introduction: Academia and the Production of Unemployment

Chapter 2 The Implausible Knowledge Triangle of the Western Balkans

Chapter 3 Human and Inhuman Capital, and Schooling: The Case of Slovenia

Chapter 5 ‘Academic Leadership’ and the Conditions of Academic Work

Chapter 6 Not Working: Shared Services and the Production of Unemployment

Chapter 7 Graduate Unemployment in Post-Haircut Cyprus: Where Have All the Students Gone?

Chapter 8 ‘Dare to Dare’: Academic Pedagogy in Times of Flattened Hierarchies

Chapter 9 Cannibalising the Collegium: The Plight of the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Managerial University

Chapter 10 Between Career Progression and Career Stagnation: Casualisation, Tenure, and the Contract of Indefinite Duration in Ireland

Chapter 11 Are University Struggles Worth Fighting?

Chapter 12 You’re Either a Flower in the Dustbin or the Spark That Lights a Fire: On Precarity and Student Protests

Chapter 13 Whither Critical Scholarship in the Modern University? Critique, Radical Democracy, and Counter-Hegemony

Chapter 14 Academics as Workers: From Career Management to Class Analysis and Collective Action