Prekarisering og akademisk arbejde

Abstract

Prekarisering har indtil for nyligt overvejende været forbundet med betingelser for kortuddannede og i en europæisk kontekst primært lokaliseret til sydeuropæiske lande. Men analyser peger på, at prekarisering har bredt sig til nordeuropæiske lande og til mange sektorer og faggrupper, herunder akademikere. Der er imidlertid kun i begrænset omfang forsket i prekarisering og akademisk arbejde, ligesom der i mindre omfang er forsket i de subjektive konsekvenser af prekariseringen. Artiklen fremlægger resultater fra et forskningsprojekt med empirisk omdrejningspunkt i, hvordan prekarisering opleves og håndteres af akademikere, der lever med midlertidige og usikre ansættelsesforhold .

‘All the single ladies’ as the ideal academic during times of COVID‐19?

“…The narrative that usually pervades when this issue is addressed, politically as well as institutionally, is how young female scholars 'opt out' of academic careers (Nielsen, 2017). After the PhD, university careers are characterized by consecutive short-term contracts with no guarantee of tenure in the end (DMES, 2015;Gleerup, Nielsen, Olsen, & Warring, 2018), expectations of international mobility (Ackers, 2004;Uhly, Visser, & Zippel, 2017), as well as ever-increasing research productivity demands (Gill, 2009;Nielsen, 2017).…”

Precarious Work in the Nordics

“…This discussion has focused on identifying traits or aspects of precariousness in Nordic working life, as it is rare to find entire groups of workers, which can be labelled a precariat in the Nordic sphere due to the Nordic welfare states and collective bargaining systems. In the Nordics, precarious work is often discussed in relation to various forms of nonstandard work and how these forms have developed in recent years (Gleerup et al 2018;Ilsøe et al 2017;Sutela & Pärnänen 2018;Svalund & Berglund 2018). This special issue on 'Precarious Work in the Nordics' presents a number of single-country and comparative analyses that investigate developments in selected forms of nonstandard work across the Nordic countries and discusses whether or not they can be said to include elements of precarious work.…”

Precarity and dehumanisation in higher education

“…These contracts, according to a 2019 survey of UK higher education by the UCU, were widespread with around 70 per cent of the 49,000 researchers and 37,000 teaching staff on fixed-term contracts (the majority of the latter being hourly paid), and a further 71,000 teachers employed as 'atypical academics' not counted in the main staff record. This is the story in the United Kingdom, but there is ample evidence that what has been called 'the adjunct crisis' in the United States (Clark 2019) is occurring across the rest of Europe and elsewhere (Hirslund et al 2018;Gleerup et al 2018;Stoica et al 2019).…”