The proletarianisation of academic labour in Australia

Australian universities over the last 25 years have been unified, internationalised, corporatised and become mass educational providers. This process is replicated globally as a response to rapid mass enrolments and marketisation. In the light of these changes, a corporate and managerial model has been identified, which has been the subject of growing discontent within the academic workforce. However, from a political economy perspective there is a lack of understanding on how and by what means academic labour has been commodified in this process. This paper, using Australia as its case study, argues that the managerial culture has alienated academics from their labour. This has resulted in them losing control over their skills and thus becoming disassociated from the educational purposes of their work. Higher education has been subjected to systemic regulatory governance that has fundamentally transformed the nature of academic labour. We contend that the regulatory state has reached so deep down into the university that academics have effectively become a de-professionalised and proletarianised labour force.     

Labour market intermediaries: a corrective to the human capital paradigm (mis)matching skills and jobs?

The orthodox supply-side human capital theory (HCT) paradigm is inadequate for understanding and adjusting to labour market volatility in UK regional economies like Wales. This article explores the role of regional labour market intermediaries (LMIs) in matching supply (skills) and demand (job opportunities) in regional labour markets. Some LMIs emerge because the HCT paradigm is failing. One Welsh LMI, Shaping the Future (StF), is explored empirically using qualitative methods. StF mainly adopted HCT tenets, but with some emergent demand-side focus. Despite helping workers adjust to labour market shocks, LMIs are not equipped to fix the structural demand-side problem of finite quality job opportunities in deindustrialized regions that accentuate skill use. A broader ‘skill eco-system’ paradigm is required, emphasising the foundational economy.     

Don’t we care?: the ethics and emotional labour of early years professionalism

This paper argues that early childhood education and care (ECEC) has a legitimate aspiration to be a ‘caring profession’ like others such as nursing or social work, defined by a moral purpose. For example, practitioners often draw on an ethic of care as evidence of their professionalism. However, the discourse of professionalism in England completely excludes the ethical vocabulary of care. Nevertheless, it necessarily depends on gendered dispositions towards emotional labour, often promoted by training programmes as ‘professional’ demeanours. Taking control of the professionalisation agenda therefore requires practitioners to demonstrate a critical understanding of their practice as ‘emotion work’. At the same time, reconceptualising practice within a political ethic of care may allow the workforce, and new trainees in particular, to champion ‘caring’ as a sustainable element of professional work, expressed not only in maternal, dyadic key‐working but in advocacy for care as a social principle.     

我国劳务品牌培育的机遇、困境和对策

走劳务品牌经营之路,内强素质,外树形象,由国内走向国际,提升劳动力的核心竞争力,这既是劳动者本身发展所需,也是市场所需,但同时也面临人们的观念问题、劳动者自身素质问题、劳务品牌培育非专业化问题和制度欠缺问题等困境。提出了四项重要建议：多种途径改变对部分劳务工种的歧视;探讨劳务品牌专业化运作的方案,为劳务品牌培育提供可行的理论支持;吸引大学生加入到品牌劳务队伍中来,提高劳务品牌的含金量;完善相关制度,为创建知名劳务品牌提供制度保障。     

Emotional labour,burnout and job satisfaction in UK teachers: the role of workplace social support

Although teaching has been described as a profoundly emotional activity, little is known about the emotional demands faced by teachers or how this impacts on their well-being. This study examined relationships between ‘emotional labour’, burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment) and job satisfaction in a sample of UK teachers. Also examined was whether workplace social support moderated any relationships found between emotional labour and strain. The relationship between job experience and emotional labour was also investigated. Six hundred and twenty-eight teachers working in secondary schools in the UK completed questionnaires. Significant associations were observed between emotional labour and all outcomes, with a positive relationship found between emotional labour and personal accomplishment. Some evidence was found that social support mitigates the negative impact of emotional demands on emotional exhaustion, feelings of personal accomplishment and job satisfaction. More experienced teachers reported higher levels of emotional labour. Findings highlight the need for teacher-training programmes to raise awareness of the emotional demands of teaching and consider ways to enhance emotion regulation skills in experienced as well as recently qualified staff.     

《1844年经济学哲学手稿》中的哲学批判与人学思想

黑格尔的辩证法和对象性存在的概念对马克思的异化劳动思想有重大影响。马克思的异化劳动思想实际上包含着从四个维度对人的本质的规定,即:"感性对象性存在""历史-社会性存在""类存在"和"自由自觉的活动"。这些构成了马克思《1844年经济学哲学手稿》中人学思想的理论基础。     

What Becomes of Undergraduate Dance Majors?

This paper examines the earnings, work patterns, and work histories of individuals employed in the field of dance using data from a survey of graduates of the Five College Dance Department. The respondents to our survey include not only those currently working in dance, but also some who never entered the profession and many others who entered but later left the field. We find that graduate education in dance, age, and prior dance experience are highly correlated with employment in the field of dance. Our findings are similar to those of other studies on artists, in showing that the returns to dance are low and that many of those employed in dance rely on non-dance jobs to supplement their dance earnings.     

关于中国入世对劳动价值论影响的探讨

中国加入WTO,融入世界市场,将面临更加丰富的商品和形式多样的劳动,这将改写我们应用马克思劳动价值理论的经济背景,要求我们结合新的实际,深化对马克思劳动价值理论的研究和认识.本文着重从脑力劳动、科技和管理人员的复杂劳动、第三产业的生产性劳动、世界劳动四方面对价值的创造作适当探讨.     

"寤生"臆解

“寤生”一词自有记载以来,历代学人皆有自己不同的诠解,纵然汗牛允栋,终未达成一致的意见.以至后世学者也莫衷一是.结合“寤”字的本意.“顺产”和“逆产”两个方面进行论证,寤生应是一种顺产现象.     

虚拟学习社区中学生学习行为的实证研究

用数据挖掘技术自动分析学生行为的兴趣差异爱好,研究结果表明：场独立型学生频繁使用后退、前进按钮,在导航面板上花费的时间较少。场依赖型学生经常使用主菜单和对学习内容进行重复访问。