Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets

Edited by Glenda Strachan, Emeritus Professor, Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith University, Australia

‘Research Handbook on Academic Labor Markets, edited by Glenda Strachan, provides very valuable accounts of the changing nature of academic labor markets in a large number of countries. [...] The 28 chapters, authored by as many as 42 scholars drawn from various disciplines and various parts of the globe, are organized under five major sections. The Handbook is indeed a rich addition to the stock of knowledge on the subject. Advancing research on many issues, the several contributors seriously attempted to unravel the complexi-ties of changes that are taking place in the academic profession.’

• ContentsPART I ACADEMIC LABOUR MARKETS1 Academic labour markets in the 21st century: an overview 2Glenda Strachan2 The contradiction of the corporate university: academic inefficiency andthe iron cage of bureaucracy 14Clyde W. Barrow3 Academic labour and the rise of Asia: mobility in a multi-polarknowledge world 36Anthony Welch and Futao Huang4 Academic and professional identities in higher education: from‘working in third space’ to ‘third space professionals’ 49Celia WhitchurchPART II CONDITIONS OF WORK: PRECARITY5 The degrading of the professoriate in the United States: freedom,creativity, and economic dynamism imperiled 65Jon D. Wisman and Quentin Hedges Duroy6 Contingent academic labour in public and private colleges anduniversities: the diminishing status of college professors 78Dell P. Champlin and Janet T. Knoedler7 The Gig Academy: changing the global face of academy labour 91Adrianna Kezar and Jude Paul Matias Dizon8 The future of research careers in academia and the rise of theentrepreneurial gig researcher 105Anne Kovalainen and Seppo Poutanen9 Academic staff trade unions: the past, present and future of facultyunionisation in Canada 117David Robinson10 Challenging the fixed-term contract: the difficulties and prospects oforganising Germany’s academic precariat 130Alexander Gallas and Anil ShahPART III EQUITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE ACADEMIC LABOUR MARKET11 Institutional inertia as a tool of institutional racism: understandingimpediments to social change at an English university 145Vini Lander, Mark McCormack and Liliana Belkin12 The gendered interaction of discipline and role specialisation inacademic labour markets 159David Peetz, Carolyn Troup and Glenda Strachan13 Promoting and sustaining gender equality through Athena SWAN in anIrish case study university 177Eileen Drew14 Understanding the slow progression to gender equality: the dynamicsbetween inequality and equality practices 189Marieke van den Brink15 Academics and work-life balance: deconstructing a concept andoutlining an intersectional framework for advancing research 200Rodrigo Rosa16 The gendered challenges of working from home in 2020–2021: anAustralian-Canadian study 214Shalene Werth, David Peetz, Carolyn Troup and Glenda StrachanPART IV NATIONAL ACADEMIC LABOUR MARKETS17 Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shiftsin South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force 233Dina Zoe Belluigi18 The contested modernisation of Peruvian universities 244Omar Manky and Juan Dolores19 Internationalisation and the precarity of academic work in Indonesianuniversities 254Nurdiana Gaus20 Crises and change: New Zealand academic labour markets 262Sereana Naepi21 Polarisation and casualisation: the changing academic workforce atAustralian universities 275Peter Woelert and Gwilym Croucher22 Academic labour markets in China: building excellence through competition 284Huan Li and Hugo Horta23 The transformation of academic employment in Japan from a closed toan open system 293Akira Arimoto24 A long farewell to Napoleon? Institutional change and patterns ofdifferentiation in the French academic labour market 306Julien Barrier and Emmanuelle Picard25 Professors’ opportunity hoarding and ‘hamster wheels’ in the Germanacademic labour market 315Christian Schneijderberg and Nicolai Götze26 The academic labour market in Canada: tides of change 327Shelagh Campbell27 Tenure in the neoliberal era: implications for a segmented academiclabour market in the USA 339Quentin Hedges DuroyPART V THE FUTURE28 On crises, opportunities and the academic profession 351Janice Newson and Claire Polster