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Against Academic Labour and the Dehumanisation of Educational Possibility

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Negotiating Neoliberalism

Part of the book series: Studies in Professional Life and Work ((SPLW,volume 3))

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Increasingly, higher education (HE) policy in the global North has stressed the importance of human capital theory, and developing the productivity or intensity of academic labour (Hall & Bowles, 2016; Marginson, 2012; McGettigan, 2015). This is a key theme that underpins the United Kingdom Government’s recent HE Green Paper (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS), 2015) and that Government’s Productivity Plan (HM Treasury, 2015).

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Hall, R. (2017). Against Academic Labour and the Dehumanisation of Educational Possibility. In: Rudd, T., Goodson, I.F. (eds) Negotiating Neoliberalism. Studies in Professional Life and Work, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-854-9_3

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