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Locked In: Feminist Perspectives on Surviving on Academic Piecework
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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Locked In: Feminist Perspectives on Surviving on Academic Piecework
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Ramirez, Helen
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Labour exploitation
Gender and Class oppresion Capitalism |
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While increasing media attention is given to examining the status of contract faculty on university campuses there is little note made of the pervasiveness of women in these positions. This paper, by drawing on Marxist and feminist theory ties the gender precarity faced by academic contract female workers to the historical practices of industries to use female labour to reduce labour costs. The textile piece worker system of the 19th century has found a 21st century form represented in the unlikely position of the female academic contract worker. The argument builds on the autoethnographic narratives of two contract women to demonstrate how the university administration’s “economic pressure” justification is an economic myth to occlude the exploitation of female workers.
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New Proposals Publishing Society
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2014-11-02
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article |
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application/pdf
application/msword application/msword |
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http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/185912
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New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015); 28-36
1715-6718 |
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eng
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http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/185912/185363
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/185912/187868 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/185912/187869 |
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Copyright (c) 2015 New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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