The Exploitation of Academic Work: Women in Teaching at Swedish Universities / Petra Angervall ; Dennis Beach

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Author	ANGERVALL, Petra (BEACH, Dennis)
Title	The Exploitation of Academic Work: Women in Teaching at Swedish Universities / Petra Angervall ; Dennis Beach
Publication year	2018
Source/Footnote	In: Higher education policy. - 31 (2018) 1, S. 1 - 17
Inventory number	47027
Keywords	Ausland : Schweden : einzelne Hochschulen ; Ausland : Schweden : Forschung, Hochschullehrer ; Frauen in der Wissenschaft
Abstract	This study concerns some of the implications of the increasing commodification of the higher education sector. It tries to highlight how higher education institutions have developed in the late 2000s through the reform path that was introduced to transform programmes and employees into marketable products. New forms of governance that change institutional contexts and concrete practices accompany this change. Based on interviews with a group of female academic lecturers and teachers, we look in particular at how the work structure is organized and practised at Swedish universities. The results illustrate a greater division of labour and a fragmentation of academic work that can be explained by recent developments. More specifically, it appears as if female academics in teaching-intensive departments do work that serves the interests of others (often men), foremost in areas and practices such as research. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)