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Gender inequality in science and technology fields takes various and complex shapes, from recruitment and retention across educational levels, to job entry and advancement barriers, to pay and compensation. Although the salary gap for... more
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      Temporary and Contingent LaborWomen in Science, Technology and EngineeringWomen and Minority In STEM Fields
It is common to hear about academics’ personal lives in terms of a lack. We know, for instance, that academics have fewer children, marry less, and work longer hours than those in other ‘professions’ (Mason et al. 2013; NTEU 2015). The... more
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      SociologyAnthropologySocial AnthropologySociology of Education
Braverman's analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of the neoliberal assault on higher education on academic labor. Much like Taylorism a century ago, adjunctification of the faculty, online... more
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      Community CollegesMarxismHigher EducationFaculty Development
Free movement plays a fundamental role in the institutional construction and normative expectations of EU citizenship. The emergence of the EU citizenship agenda mainly taken place along the evolution of mobility rights. However, the... more
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      Human RightsTerritory (Political Theory)Transnational migrationTransnational Labour Migration
In the current discourse of low-budget urbanity, there is a special place for projects and practices of temporary reuse. While the idea of temporary urban uses is often understood as encompassing a highly heterogeneous variety of... more
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      Urban StudiesPrecarityTemporary and Contingent LaborTemporary Uses
‘Herbert Marcuse and the Legacy of One Dimensional Man’, International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference, https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/files/2014/09/One-Dimensional-Man-at-Fifty-Conference-Program1.pdf
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      Critical TheoryBusinessIndustrial And Labor RelationsInformation Systems
Purpose: To explore the implications for employees’ psychological contracts of a forced change from permanent to temporary employment status within an organisation. Methodology/Approach: A random sample of 30 employees, stratified by... more
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      ContractsPsychological ContractHuman Resource ManagementChange Management
In the last few years the relative size of the contingent versus permanent workforce in organisations has been on the rise. Concurrently there has been an increased focus for organisations to become more agile. Whilst the economic effect... more
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      ManagementOrganizational ChangeOrganisational Culture And Employee CommitmentTemporary and Contingent Labor
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      Industrial And Labor RelationsMarxismWorking ClassesPost-Marxism
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      Critical TheoryOrganizational BehaviorSociologyEconomic Sociology
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      Labor EconomicsEducationEducational TechnologyAcademic Freedom
"Reclaiming the Landscape: 35 things you can do to improve work conditions of contingent faculty" was part of the 2016 Presidential Panel for the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), delivered on 7 January 2016.
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      ClassicsGreek LiteratureLatin LiteratureRoman History
According to institutional data, during the 2012-2013 academic year, adjunct and other contingent faculty made up 71 percent of the total faculty at George Mason University. Like contingent faculty at other colleges and universities, much... more
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      Higher EducationPrecarityTemporary and Contingent LaborSupporting Adjunct Faculty
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      Critical TheoryOrganizational BehaviorHistoryEuropean History
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      Critical TheoryFinanceHistorySociology
This paper outlines evidences and debates about non-reguar employment in France. It assesses available empirical evidence and French literature. It is a shorter copy of a full report. See Kornig C. et Michon F (2010), « L'emploi non... more
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      Temporary and Contingent LaborPart Time Employment
This article explores the use of contingent forms of employment in two diverse country contexts-the UK and Sweden-and investigates the influence of changing regulatory and economic conditions over a period that covers the current economic... more
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      Sociology of WorkConstruction ManagementHuman Resource ManagementConstruction
In many industries, integrated hierarchical organizations have been replaced by nonhierarchical entities that are permeable, interconnected, and modular. Other industries, however, maintain relatively high levels of integration. We use... more
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      Strategic AlliancesOutsourcingTemporary and Contingent LaborTechnological change
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      Critical TheoryHistoryModern HistoryEconomic History
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      Academic FreedomPolitical ScienceAcademic ProfessionTemporary and Contingent Labor
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      Critical TheoryCultural HistoryEconomic HistorySociology
Over the last decade US economic policy discourse has held that a turn toward green industry (e.g., renewable energy, recycling, green construction), is a vital solution to the dual crises of environmental degradation and the erosion of... more
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      Sociology of WorkRecyclingPrecarityWork and Labour
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      Sociology of WorkSociology of LawLabour LawTemporary and Contingent Labor
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      Political PhilosophyEducationHigher EducationWork and Labour
On-line education is rationalizing and fragmenting faculty labor into discreet parts and allocating it to an assembly line of adjunct faculty, corporate contractors, staff technicians, and administrators. This emerging division of... more
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      Higher EducationLearning And Teaching In Higher EducationHigher Education ManagementHigher Education Policy
Based on an original survey of the UK construction industry this article examines the training disadvantages faced by contingent labour. This article addresses two key questions: first, is the provision of training different for directly... more
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      Labor EconomicsTraining and DevelopmentConstruction ManagementHuman Resource Management
Foreign nurses in Nova Scotia are needed, but not always wanted. My research explores the contradictory labour experiences of nurses, and their consciousness of these experiences, drawing on original ethnographic interviews with foreign... more
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      Mobility/MobilitiesWork and LabourTransnational Labour MigrationTemporary and Contingent Labor
The connection between international education and immigration has drawn the attention of scholars interested in exploring how immigrants strategically use international education as a means to facilitate their migration projects,... more
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      Health Care ManagementTemporary and Contingent LaborInternational students recruitmentInternational student mobility
Special Issue, The Origins of the Welfare State: Global and Comparative Approaches Co-edited by Agnoletto, S. and Palmieri, C.... more
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      Critical TheorySociologyPolitical SociologyEvolutionary Psychology
This article analyzes temporary migration schemes in Canada and Australia. Unlike the bulk of affluent states, both countries eschewed guestworker programs for most of the twentieth century, embracing migrants as permanent settlers and... more
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      Critical TheorySociologyCanadian StudiesLaw
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      Critical TheoryHistoryIntellectual HistoryCultural History
My contribution to the "Forum" focuses on how discursive gaps produced within composition scholarship can carry material consequences for contingent faculty and exacerbate their already marginalized positions in the academy. My interest... more
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      Composition StudiesComposition and RhetoricTemporary and Contingent LaborSupporting Adjunct Faculty
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      Critical TheoryModern HistorySociologyMedia Sociology
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      Critical TheoryAmerican HistoryEconomic HistoryEvolutionary Biology
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      Critical TheorySociologyCollective BehaviorCriminology
Abstract: This book chapter contextualizes two iterations of art practice performed in 2014 by Shepley (i) in the ruined catholic seminary St Peters, Kilmahew, Scotland and (ii) Connaught Place, Delhi, India. The paper examines ways in... more
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      Contemporary ArtTemporary and Contingent LaborDissenting culture and education
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      Critical TheoryHistoryEconomic HistorySociology
This article shows that professional skill level of employees is a key factor in the formation of employee responses to subcontracted forms of employment. In addition, the proportion of employees hired through temporary staffing... more
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      Industrial And Labor RelationsLabor unionsTemporary and Contingent LaborFlexible Employment
This is an updated version of a talk I first gave at U of T in the fall of 2008, regarding privatization of the university and its effects. I would also point readers to the article I wrote for Academic Matters for further information.... more
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      EducationSustainability in Higher EducationFaculty IssuesEducation Policy
This is a case study of the use of subcontracting within BT plc the UK's largest telecommunications firm. The 1990s have witnessed significant quantitative and qualitative changes in the utilisation and management of subcontracting within... more
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      Telecommunications EngineeringSociology of WorkEmployment RelationsTelecommunications
This is a study of the reconfiguration of bureaucracy, based on a case study of subcontracting within BT plc, the UK's largest telecommunications firm.The 1990s witnessed significant quantitative and qualitative changes in the utilization... more
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      Telecommunications EngineeringSociology of WorkBureaucracies & Bureaucratic WorkersTransaction Costs
The temporary employment relationship (TER) - as a non-standard, often precarious work arrangement – has been key to contemporary practices such as ‘just-in-time’ and lean production utilized by firms under neoliberal capitalism. A TER... more
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      Labour LawNeoliberalismTemporary and Contingent LaborLabour Movements
In the corporate university, a capitalist enterprise, the fact of contingent academic labor should not be seen as an aberration, a scandalous (but perhaps temporary) anomaly that could be solved within and by the very system that produces... more
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      Political EconomyPolitical PhilosophyEducationHigher Education
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      Academic FreedomAcademic ProfessionTemporary and Contingent LaborAcademic Identity
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      Higher EducationGraduate EducationEquity and Social Justice in Higher EducationHigher Education Management
En este trabajo se presentan dos ejemplos de política migratoria laboral a partir de la experiencia de jornaleros agrícolas centroamericanos en la frontera sur de México y de marroquíes en Francia. Se analizan los modelos de trabajadores... more
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      Moroccan StudiesMigrationIrregular MigrationAgricultural Economics
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      Critical TheoryHistoryEuropean HistoryModern History
This article examines the rise of labor dispatch-a fast-growing form of precarious work-and its regulation politics in post-socialist China. Drawing on qualitative research, the author argues that rather than generalized deregulation and... more
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      Industrial And Labor RelationsPostsocialismChinaChina studies