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The Alienated Academic

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This chapter details the mechanisms through which the secular crisis of capitalism is restructuring academic labour. This is in terms of policy that shapes a competitive environment, the financialisation of academic work through student debt, bond markets and so on, and through the commodification and marketisation of the outputs of academic work. Here, I describe how the incorporation of academic labour into the self-valorisation process of capital through research and pedagogic innovation enables a critique of the proletarianisation of the University.

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Hall, R. (2018). Crisis. In: The Alienated Academic. Marxism and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94304-6_2

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