The ‘Global Issues’ section of the current issue of the Global Labour Journal (GLJ) is dedicated to working conditions in academia. More specifically, it addresses a trend that appears to have become more pronounced across the globe in recent years: the precarisation of academic labour, [...]
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This contribution is written jointly by Alexander Gallas and Jörg Nowak.* Despite the fact that there have been spectacular strikes in many parts of the world since the inception of the global economic crisis in 2007-8, the news media and the academic public have [...]
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My book starts from the observation that the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments sought to systematically constrain organised labour. Thatcher’s mentor and close ally Keith Joseph published a pamphlet in February 1979 entitled Solving the Union Problem is The Key to Britain’s [...]
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