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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807107203321

Autore

Rajagopal Indhu

Titolo

Hidden academics : contract faculty in Canadian universities / / Indhu Rajagopal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-4426-7573-X

1-282-02597-X

9786612025976

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/22

Soggetti

College teachers, Part-time - Canada

Universities and colleges - Canada - Faculty

Part-time employment - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: 'Changing Times and Changing Mission' -- The Contract Faculty -- Permanent 'Temps' and Surplus Value -- Hidden Academics -- Invisible Women -- Contemporaries and Classics: Segmented Interests -- Fragmented Academe -- Conflicts That Divide: Full-Timers versus Part-Timers -- Interests That Diverge: Administrators versus Part-Timers -- The Emergence of an Academic Underclass -- 'Sweated Labour' -- Epilogue: IvoryTower, Inc.? -- Survey and Methodology.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Hidden Academics, Indhu Rajagopal examines the multiple ways in which contract faculty have emerged as an underclass in academia. She explores the identity of the part-time faculty, the nature of their work, and their feelings about their status within the university. Central to these discussions is an analysis of occupational segregation and the feminization of the part-time workforce. In the course of the study, Rajagopal also looks at full-time faculty and their perceptions of part-timers, academic administrators' reasons for hiring part-timers, and



the future of the university in this context."--Jacket.