Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Academic Estate Revisited: Reflections on Academia’s Rapid Progress from the Capitoline Hill to the Tarpeian Rock

Chapter 3 New Public Management and the Academic Profession: the Rationalisation of Academic Work Revisited

Chapter 4 Markets and New Modes of Knowledge Production

Chapter 5 Policy Change and the Challenge to Academic Identities

Chapter 6 The Academic Professions in the Global Era

Chapter 7 Profession, Market and Organisation: How is Academia Regulated?

Chapter 8 The Organised Contradictions of Teaching and Research: Reshaping the Academic Profession

Chapter 9 Doctoral Education: Pressures for Change and Modernisation

Chapter 11 Employment Relations in Europe: a Comparative and Critical Review

Chapter 12 Changing Employment Relationships in North America: Academic Work in the United States, Canada and Mexico

Chapter 13 Towards a T-shaped Profession: Academic Work and Career in the Knowledge Society