University Teachers and Resistance in the Neoliberal University

This study of Canadian university teacher militancy explores the dynamics and strategies of resistance in the neoliberal university. While responses to the neoliberal reorientation of higher education are complex, uneven, and sometimes contradictory, the authors demonstrate how neoliberalization has...

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Published inLabor studies journal Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 227 - 249
Main Authors Ross, Stephanie, Savage, Larry, Watson, James
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2020
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Colleges & universities
Higher education
Militancy
Neoliberalism
Politicization
Resistance
Strikes
Teachers
Canada
academic unions
Canada
higher education
faculty associations
neoliberalism
universities
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Summary:This study of Canadian university teacher militancy explores the dynamics and strategies of resistance in the neoliberal university. While responses to the neoliberal reorientation of higher education are complex, uneven, and sometimes contradictory, the authors demonstrate how neoliberalization has fostered greater conflict, more militancy, more strikes, and greater politicization of unions representing university teachers. The authors argue that these expressions of university teacher militancy are primarily driven by external pressures rather than internal forces and are further complicated by divisions between workers within the context of established university hierarchies.
ISSN:0160-449X
1538-9758
DOI:10.1177/0160449X19883342