The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the global labour market, including the Australian
archaeological profession. This, the fourth in a series of comprehensive surveys of …

Since the 1980s, archaeology has been further embedded in a reinforced and accelerating
capitalist ideology, namely neo-liberalism. Most archaeologists had no alternative but to …

During the 1980s, the adoption of neoliberal precepts in archaeology initiated the process of
its privatisation. This process in turn created a new economic niche called contract …

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study,
Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and consequences of the contemporary …

Any overview of archaeological ethics in North America and how responsive or not it is to
broader, global multicultural ethical discourses in large part must acknowledge that …

Since the 1980s, privatisation of the archaeological sector mirrored its contextual political
economy. After the financial crisis of 2008, and its devastating effects on the professional …

Background In the winter of 2007, I interviewed a panel of archaeologists active in the
province of Quebec, most of whom were employed in the private sector. In Quebec, 54 per …

In the 1960s, archaeology was a newcomer to Quebec's cultural francophone scene, and
commercial archaeology made its first appearance at the end of the 1970s. Today, in a …

This article discusses the sector-wide organization of contractual archaeologists in Québec,
beginning with the formation of a workers' committee and leading subsequently to union …

This chapter presents a snapshot of cultural resource management (CRM) industry that has
developed since the 1970s and addresses how the industry's trade association, the …