This
article,"
The Economics of
Superstars," is not specifically about the academy but does relates
directly to the academic tiered labor system and shows how current
academic employment practices are part of larger national and global
practices.
It's not just here. Contingency
and its inequities are global. For a more complete understanding of
contingency and how it
affects higher education, we need to examine its practices in other
professions across the nation and around the world.
- Learning to serve
again? From western German "standard employment” to precarious labour
(1973-1998) Dissertation
thesis
(submitted by
Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Sociological Research Institute,
Göttingen,Germany, 3/2002). http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/kat/3643.html
"Industrial restructuring has led to a drop in the employment rate in
Brazil, although it has produced extremely high gains in productivity
for industry as a whole and for
some segments in particular (automobiles and automobile parts, for
example). This confirms a process whereby the
employment level has become more precarious: an increasing proportion
of workers do not have signed
working papers and are shifted precariously to the so-called informal
economy. In general, job and salary scales do
not keep up with actual changes in factory labour (Bresciani,
1994:201-202). According to Arruda (1994),
'...the flexible
system in the globalization
process is eliminating more jobs than it is capable of creating.
Capital and a deregulated market do not give priority to either jobs or
human needs. The
principle of
competitive modernization is to keep a limited number of
stable jobs inside companies and precarious part-time jobs outside, in
a process of sharing unemployment.'"
- European
Commission draft of the Joint Employment Report
- Argentina:
Economic measures impact human rights
Locally based institutions made up of community leaders,
religious leaders, academics, elected officials, and other prominent
members of the community can be effective vehicles to address workplace
and community concerns. Although the Boards have no legal authority,
over the last seven years, the local structure of the Boards have
produced real results
