Professor-in-Training: Status Control of the Teaching Assistant

IF 4.4 2区 社会学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Natalie Pasquinelli
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I examine the role of apprenticeship status in controlling the labor of unionized graduate student teaching assistants (TAs). In her book Coerced, Erin Hatton identifies status as a basis of labor coercion—particularly in nontraditional labor regimes—in which managers control workers’ access to status-based rights, rewards, and punishments. I expand Hatton's concept of status coercion to status control and distinguish between two types: despotic, in which status coercion prevails, and hegemonic, in which status consent prevails. I argue that status control of TAs is hegemonic, relying on their investment in a system of apprenticeship in which course instructors are a source of professional advancement, opportunity, and support outside of the TA job. I draw on autoethnographic fieldwork to analyze one expression of TA control, participatory management. In this model, the faculty instructor invites TAs to collaborate on course design and encourages routine discussion of teaching strategies, in which hidden labor is made regulable through “confession”. Identification with the instructor limits TA autonomy by disrupting alliances between TAs, and between TAs and students. I conclude by sketching variations in TA management and by discussing status control as a broader mechanism of extraction in the contemporary university.
培训中的教授:助教的地位控制
我考察了学徒地位在控制工会研究生助教(TAs)的劳动中的作用。在她的书《强迫》中,艾琳·哈顿认为地位是劳动强制的基础——特别是在非传统的劳动制度中——在这种制度中,管理者控制着工人获得基于地位的权利、奖励和惩罚。我将哈顿的地位强制概念扩展到地位控制,并区分了两种类型:专制的,地位强制占主导地位,和霸权的,地位同意占主导地位。我认为助教的地位控制是霸权的,依赖于他们对学徒制度的投资,在学徒制度中,课程教师是助教工作之外的专业进步、机会和支持的来源。我利用自己的民族志田野调查来分析TA控制的一种表达,参与式管理。在这个模式中,教师讲师邀请助教合作设计课程,并鼓励对教学策略进行常规讨论,通过“忏悔”使隐性劳动变得可调节。对讲师的认同会破坏助教之间以及助教与学生之间的联盟,从而限制助教的自主权。最后,我概述了助教管理的变化,并讨论了在当代大学中作为一种更广泛的抽离机制的状态控制。
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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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