Introduction: Academia and the Production of Unemployment

What is it about?

This is the “Introduction” to a book, edited by Suman Gupta, Jernej Habjan, and Hrvoje Tutek, that explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organizations of higher education and research work achieve exactly the opposite of what they claim: though ostensibly undertaken to facilitate employment, these moves actually produce unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors.

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