Description
Product ID: | 9781517902124 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Forerunners: Ideas First |
Title: | The Uberfication of the University |
Authors: | Author: Gary Hall |
Page Count: | 74 |
Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Higher education, tertiary education, Business studies: general, Universities, Business studies: general |
Description: | The contemporary university's implications for the future organization of labor Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy—an economy that has little to do with sharing access to good and services and everything to do with selling this access—and the companies behind it: LinkedIn, Uber, and Airbnb. In this society, we all are encouraged to become microentrepreneurs of the self, acting as if we are our own precarious freelance enterprises at a time when we are being steadily deprived of employment rights, public services, and welfare support. The book considers the contemporary university, itself subject to such entrepreneurial practices, as one polemical site for the affirmative disruption of this model. |
Imprint Name: | University of Minnesota Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Minnesota Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2016-08-17 |