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Sad – though not surprised – to see what was anticipated almost a decade ago is now the norm in some places.
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-uberfication-of-the-university
According to the University and College Union, nearly two-thirds of essential tutorial teaching at Oxford is carried out by academics employed on precarious short-term contracts or paid by the hour in a manner akin to Uber-style gig economy work.
“They compared our work to bedroom fitters, security guards and cleaners, and I kept thinking: ‘Yes, and all those people have no chance of fighting the gig economy, but we do.’”
Manifold @uminnpressThe Uberfication of the University | Manifold @uminnpress_The Uberfication of the University_ analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy and the companies behind it: LinkedIn, Uber, and Airbnb. The book considers the contemporary university, itself subject to such entrepreneurial practices, as one polemical site for the affirmative disruption of this model.
And it’s not just Oxford University where uberfication is occuring. It’s at the British council too.
“This Uberfication of teaching needs to stop.”
The Guardian · British Council accused of forcing gig economy teachers into ‘feeding frenzy’ for work