The Uberfication of the University (Paperback)

Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy-an economy that has little to do with sharing access to good and services and everything to do with selling this access-and the companies behind it: LinkedIn, Uber, and Airbnb. In this society, we all are encouraged to become microentrepreneurs of the self, acting as if we are our own precarious freelance enterprises at a time when we are being steadily deprived of employment rights, public services, and welfare support. The book considers the contemporary university, itself subject to such entrepreneurial practices, as one polemical site for the affirmative disruption of this model. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Forerunners: Ideas First
Release date:	August 2016
Authors:	Gary Hall
Dimensions:	180 x 127 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade / Trade
Pages:	74
ISBN-13:	978-1-5179-0212-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics
LSN:	1-5179-0212-6
Barcode:	9781517902124

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