Gill, Rosalind. 2014. Academics, Cultural Workers and Critical Labour Studies. Journal of Cultural Economy, 7(1), pp. 12-30. ISSN 1753-0350 [Article]

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The aim of this paper is to locate academics within the sights of critical labour studies, and, in particular, the contemporary interest in cultural workers. Despite a growing literature about – and in response to – the transformation of the University there have been few attempts to study academics as workers. This paper argues that there are a number of parallels between academic work and the much more well-documented experiences of work in the cultural and creative industries. The paper examines the increasing experience of precariousness among academics, the intensification and extensification of work, and the new modes of surveillance in the academy and their affective impacts. The aim of the article is to build on the critical lexicon of studies of cultural labour in order to think about academic work as labour and to generate new ways of thinking about power, privilege and exploitation. It argues for the need for a psychosocial perspective that can understand the new labouring subjectivities in academia.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2013.861763
Additional Information:	"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Cultural Economy on 7 Dec 2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17530350.2013.861763. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited."
Keywords:	academia, labour, neoliberalism, precarity, surveillance
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
Dates:	Date Event 27 October 2013 Accepted 7 December 2013 Published Online 2014 Published
Item ID:	37637
Date Deposited:	26 Sep 2024 13:32
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2024 15:54
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37637

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