Locked In: Feminist Perspectives on Surviving on Academic Piecework

dc.contributor.author	Coulter, Natalie
dc.contributor.author	Ramirez, Helen
dc.date.accessioned	2019-05-16T17:25:24Z
dc.date.available	2019-05-16T17:25:24Z
dc.date.issued	2015-03
dc.description.abstract	While increasing media attention is given to examining the status of contract faculty on university campuses there is little note made of the pervasiveness of women in these positions. This paper, by drawing on Marxist and feminist theory ties the gender precarity faced by academic contract female workers to the historical practices of industries to use female labour to reduce labour costs. The textile piece worker system of the 19th century has found a 21st century form represented in the unlikely position of the female academic contract worker. The argument builds on the autoethnographic narratives of two contract women to demonstrate how the university administration’s “economic pressure” justification is an economic myth to occlude the exploitation of female workers.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 7.2 (2015)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10315/36209
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry	en_US
dc.subject	Labour Exploitation	en_US
dc.subject	Gender and Class Oppression	en_US
dc.subject	Capitalism	en_US
dc.title	Locked In: Feminist Perspectives on Surviving on Academic Piecework	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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