Today we’re linking you to “The Precarization of Academic Labor” by Alexander Gallas. Gallas works at the Department of Political Science of the University of Kassel in Germany. He is active in two initiatives that facilitate the self-organisation of precarious academic workers, serves on the Editorial Board of the Global Labour Journal and has authored a monograph called The Thatcherite Offensive: A Neo-Poulantzasian Analysis (Haymarket, 2017).
Gallas draws on the articles published by the Global Labour Journal focusing on the rise of precarious work in academic institutions in the United States of America, Germany, Turkey and South Africa. He argues that precarious work for those doing intellectual work at universities is a growing global phenomenon. He calls for a creation of unions aware of this global challenge of the commercialisation of education and intellectual work.
Find the article here: http://column.global-labour-university.org/2018/02/the-precarisation-of-academic-labour.html#more