Introduction: Laboring in the Extractive University

IF 4.4 2区 社会学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
M. Burawoy, Margaret Eby, Thomas Gepts, J. Germain, Natalie Pasquinelli, Elizabeth Torres Carpio
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The twin pressures of dwindling state funding and widening student access has created a crisis of higher education that reverberates into the hidden abode of teaching and learning. In this special issue we reconnect pedagogy to its context of determination (and nondetermination) by bringing theories of the labor process to bear on the dilemmas and challenges faced by teaching assistants (TAs). Our project of auto-ethnography was suspended between two crises—COVID-19 and an unprecedented university-wide strike by graduate students. Elizabeth Torres Carpio advances the idea of the university's “selective recognition” that expands the work of street-level educators -TAs facing increasing numbers of students from economically poor and culturally diverse backgrounds. Natalie Pasquinelli considers the way faculty manage TAs as apprentices through hegemonic “status control.” Justin Germain focuses on the autonomy that allows TAs to turn teaching into “innovation games,” offering the players a sense of accomplishment. Thomas Gepts examines the “arrhythmic” time bind in which graduate students are caught between commitments to future-oriented research and present-oriented teaching. Margaret Eby shows how the “power of silence” allows TAs to conceal their anxiety and defend their autonomy. The university extracts the labor of TAs by giving them “constrained autonomy” to absorb, divert, and conceal the pressures descending from a top-heavy administrative structure. We extend the idea of “constrained autonomy” to other occupations.
简介:在采掘大学劳动
国家资金减少和学生入学机会扩大的双重压力造成了高等教育危机,并波及到教学和学习的隐蔽场所。在这期特刊中,我们通过将劳动过程理论与助教(TA)面临的困境和挑战联系起来,将教育学与其决定(和非决定)的背景重新联系起来。我们的汽车摄影项目在两次新冠肺炎危机和研究生前所未有的大学罢工之间暂停。Elizabeth Torres Carpio提出了大学“选择性承认”的想法,这扩大了街头教育工作者的工作——助教面临着越来越多来自经济贫困和文化多样背景的学生。Natalie Pasquinelli认为,教师通过霸权的“地位控制”将助教管理为学徒的方式。Justin Germain专注于让助教将教学变成“创新游戏”的自主性,为玩家提供成就感。Thomas Gepts研究了研究生在致力于面向未来的研究和面向现在的教学之间的“心律失常”时间约束。Margaret Eby展示了“沉默的力量”如何让助教们掩饰自己的焦虑,捍卫自己的自主性。该大学通过赋予助教“受约束的自主权”来吸收、转移和掩盖自上而下的行政结构带来的压力,从而提取助教的劳动力。我们将“受限自主”的概念扩展到其他职业。
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期刊介绍: For over 30 years, Work and Occupations has published rigorous social science research on the human dynamics of the workplace, employment, and society from an international, interdisciplinary perspective. Work and Occupations provides you with a broad perspective on the workplace, examining international approaches to work-related issues as well as insights from scholars in a variety of fields, including: anthropology, demography, education, government administration, history, industrial relations, labour economics, management, psychology, and sociology. In addition to regular features including research notes, review essays, and book reviews.
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