By taking an historical perspective, and by drawing on our own empirical work from the UK
in the 1980s and more recently, we argue three main things. First, we need to understand …

In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the
past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are …

Spurred by our concern for the university institution and its increasing dependence on
unstable employment contracts, we present possible approaches for future analyses of …

As Edward Said ruminated in his Reflections on Exile,“[e] xile is strangely compelling to think
about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a …

This paper provides an overview of the literature exploring the realities of contingent faculty
at US universities and colleges with a focus on STEM. We focus our review of the literature …

Partiendo de una preocupación por la Universidad, que cada vez más se sostiene sobre
contratos precarios, apuntamos posibles aspectos a abordar en futuros análisis de la …

This paper revisits the notions of contract and status found in classical sociology, legal
theory, and labour law. Adopting an historical perspective, it explores the fragmentation of …

Through a phenomenological research design, this study explores experiences of precarity
among early-career academics in the UK and the USA higher education sectors. These …

This article argues that more emphasis should be paid to the communicative power of trade
unionism because it may constitute a starting point or a privileged standpoint which a trade …

While union membership has declined over the last several decades, there has been a
recent surge in union organizing among contingent faculty—non-tenure-track faculty who …