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Author Rajagopal, Indhu, 1938-

Title Hidden academics : contract faculty in Canadian universities / Indhu Rajagopal
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 330 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject College teachers, Part-time -- Canada
Universities and colleges -- Canada -- Faculty
Part-time employment -- Canada
EDUCATION -- Higher.
College teachers, Part-time
Part-time employment
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442675735
144267573X
128202597X
9781282025974