Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education

1. Introduction: Academia and the Production of Unemployment
Suman Gupta, Jernej Habjan, Hrvoje Tutek

Part I. The Political Economy of Higher Education Policy Initiatives Now

2. The Implausible Knowledge Triangle of the Western Balkans
Danijela Dolenec

3. Human and Inhuman Capital, and Schooling: The Case of Slovenia
Primož Krašovec

4. Privatising Minds: New Educational Policies in India
P. K. Vijayan

Part II. Management and Leadership Against Academic Freedom

5. ‘Academic Leadership’ and the Conditions of Academic Work
Richard Allen, Suman Gupta

6. Not Working: Shared Services and the Production of Unemployment
Kim Emery

Part III. Generation Gaps and Economic Dependency in Academic Life

7. Graduate Unemployment in Post-Haircut Cyprus: Where Have All the Students Gone?
Mike Hajimichael

8. ‘Dare to Dare’: Academic Pedagogy in Times of Flattened Hierarchies
Ivana Perica

9. Cannibalising the Collegium: The Plight of the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Managerial University
George Morgan

10. Between Career Progression and Career Stagnation: Casualisation, Tenure, and the Contract of Indefinite Duration in Ireland
Mariya Ivancheva, Micheal O’Flynn

Part IV. The Scope of Collective Action in Academia

11. Are University Struggles Worth Fighting?
Branko Bembič

12. You’re Either a Flower in the Dustbin or the Spark That Lights a Fire: On Precarity and Student Protests
Mark Bergfeld

13. Whither Critical Scholarship in the Modern University? Critique, Radical Democracy, and Counter-Hegemony
Cerelia Athanassiou, Jamie Melrose

14. Academics as Workers: From Career Management to Class Analysis and Collective Action
Hrvoje Tutek

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Globalization, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Work, Management