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- Title
When Hephaestus Fell to Earth.
- Authors
Ovetz, Robert
- Abstract
Braverman’s analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of the neoliberal assault on higher education on academic labor. Much like Taylorism a century ago, adjunctification of the faculty, online education, and data driven planning are rationalizing academic labor. Teaching is being “unbundled” and its components parts automated, outsourced, and transferred to a growing middle level administration. As a result, faculty are becoming “just-in-time,” deskilled, disempowered, contingent labor. This newly emerging new division of labor is fundamentally transforming higher education. No longer merely subject to commercialization, academic labor is being reorganized to resemble the interchangeable contingent work that is ubiquitous throughout the labor market. To resist these developments it is necessary for faculty to study the new division of academic labor in order to devise new organizing tactics and strategies, such as the systemwide local and Metro organizing models.
- Subjects
LABOR &; Monopoly Capital (Book); BRAVERMAN, Harry; DIVISION of labor; RATIONALIZATION (Sociology); TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915; ONLINE education; ENTERPRISE resource planning; HIGHER education
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 2015, Vol 40, Issue 3, p243
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0160449X15615058