The Changing Face of Academic Life: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Academic Estate Revisited: Reflections on Academia’s Rapid Progress from the Capitoline Hill to the Tarpeian Rock....Pages 15-35
New Public Management and the Academic Profession: the Rationalisation of Academic Work Revisited....Pages 36-57
Markets and New Modes of Knowledge Production....Pages 58-77
Policy Change and the Challenge to Academic Identities....Pages 78-95
The Academic Professions in the Global Era....Pages 96-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Profession, Market and Organisation: How is Academia Regulated?....Pages 117-133
The Organised Contradictions of Teaching and Research: Reshaping the Academic Profession....Pages 134-154
Doctoral Education: Pressures for Change and Modernisation....Pages 155-170
Work Allocation and Rewards in Shaping Academic Work....Pages 171-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Employment Relations in Europe: a Comparative and Critical Review....Pages 195-217
Changing Employment Relationships in North America: Academic Work in the United States, Canada and Mexico....Pages 218-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Towards a T-shaped Profession: Academic Work and Career in the Knowledge Society....Pages 251-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-279