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Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities:

Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities: We are in the midst of a ‘research-bourgeois’ revolution within higher education in the UK. Part of the global project of neo-liberalism to strengthen the link between money and work, and driven by research assessment, diverse research use-values are being subordinated to homogeneous RAE-value. Academic research workers are becoming alienated from the product of their labour. Once freely available to all academics, ‘intellectual commons’—well-stocked library, material security, time and other resources—are being enclosed, access becoming dependent upon production of RAE-value. Two new classes are emerging in academia as some research workers are forced to alienate their own research-labour-power, selling their ability to carry out research work to ‘research capitalists’, who are able to appropriate a portion of the RAE-value which results. Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities David Harvie Introduction The working conditions of many academics in UK universities have deteriorated sharply over the past two decades or so, even if ‘for many the academic labour process remains in its core activities [of teaching, research, scholarship, counselling and administration] remarkably constant’ in terms of the type of work performed (Miller, 1991: 111). There have been dramatic and drastic changes in higher education: university budgets, together with funding in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Capital and Class SAGE

Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities:

Harvie, David
Capital and Class , Volume 24 (2): 30 – Sep 11, 2016
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We are in the midst of a ‘research-bourgeois’ revolution within higher education in the UK. Part of the global project of neo-liberalism to strengthen the link between money and work, and driven by research assessment, diverse research use-values are being subordinated to homogeneous RAE-value. Academic research workers are becoming alienated from the product of their labour. Once freely available to all academics, ‘intellectual commons’—well-stocked library, material security, time and other resources—are being enclosed, access becoming dependent upon production of RAE-value. Two new classes are emerging in academia as some research workers are forced to alienate their own research-labour-power, selling their ability to carry out research work to ‘research capitalists’, who are able to appropriate a portion of the RAE-value which results. Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities David Harvie Introduction The working conditions of many academics in UK universities have deteriorated sharply over the past two decades or so, even if ‘for many the academic labour process remains in its core activities [of teaching, research, scholarship, counselling and administration] remarkably constant’ in terms of the type of work performed (Miller, 1991: 111). There have been dramatic and drastic changes in higher education: university budgets, together with funding in

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