ERIC Number: EJ1422181
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
EISSN: EISSN-1360-0486
Academic Workforce in France and the UK in Historical Perspectives
Comparative Education, v60 n2 p217-238 2024
This historical exploration of the development of the academic workforce in the UK and France was triggered by the observation of significant similarities in contemporary debates on casualisation, and segmentation despite their distinctive HE systems. We develop a quantitative history of academic staff to understand why the differences in the two HE systems are not as significant in respect to labour market and working conditions. The new data show that connected processes of casualisation, professional segmentation, and sectorial differentiation are used to manage tensions between massification and staff recruitment in both countries, in a context of declining and increasingly unequal distribution of resources, producing inequalities within institutions, as within the profession itself. The reorganisation of the academic workforce during three periods of growth of HE systems under traditional, Fordist and managerial influences has incrementally produced three groups of permanent, casualised, and precarised staff and a dual academic labour market.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Higher Education, Data Analysis, College Enrollment, Student Recruitment, Labor Force Development, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Labor Market, Work Environment, Educational Change
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom; France
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