The profound repercussions of the most recent economic crisis in the West have brought a proliferation of studies focused on workers’ lived experiences in relation to neoliberal structuring dynamics. The historical conditions for such neoliberal transition slowly but steadily crystallized with the early interaction between capitalism and higher education, as the post–World War II context witnessed a shift away from public funding and the general trend towards “accumulation by dispossession.” Several scholars have acknowledged the process of privatization and the permeation of corporate logic into higher education. Notions such as ‘McDonaldization,’ ‘academic capitalism,’ and ‘corporate university’ describe a trend that started in the 1990s and gradually increased with the multiple economic downturns that brought funding cuts in public education, together with the infusion of private capital. Lorenz provides a useful framework of continuity between Fordism and post-Fordism, understood as shifting its focus from rights to risks.
Briziarelli, M., Martinez Guillem, S. (2021). ‘Uber’ University and Labor Recomposition Struggling Notes on (Dis)organized Academia. In B. Dolber, M. Rodino-Colocino, C. Kumanyika, T. Wolfson (a cura di), The Gig Economy Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence (pp. 124-137). Routledge [10.4324/9781003140054-12].
‘Uber’ University and Labor Recomposition Struggling Notes on (Dis)organized Academia
Briziarelli, M;
2021
Abstract
The profound repercussions of the most recent economic crisis in the West have brought a proliferation of studies focused on workers’ lived experiences in relation to neoliberal structuring dynamics. The historical conditions for such neoliberal transition slowly but steadily crystallized with the early interaction between capitalism and higher education, as the post–World War II context witnessed a shift away from public funding and the general trend towards “accumulation by dispossession.” Several scholars have acknowledged the process of privatization and the permeation of corporate logic into higher education. Notions such as ‘McDonaldization,’ ‘academic capitalism,’ and ‘corporate university’ describe a trend that started in the 1990s and gradually increased with the multiple economic downturns that brought funding cuts in public education, together with the infusion of private capital. Lorenz provides a useful framework of continuity between Fordism and post-Fordism, understood as shifting its focus from rights to risks.
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