[lbo-talk] seems 99% sure

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This has been the trend since the eighties. I was at U.C. Berkeley since this "rationalization" of the university started to happen. Greatly aided by the gradual withholding of public funds from the universities.

But "academic entrepreneur" is much to polite a name for it.

Joanna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>

Any new development here?

While we are at this, it seems that universities increasingly turn
into sweatshops in which academic entrepreneur characters attract
paying clients and hire cognitariat i.e. workers (such as junior
faculty or grad students) producing intellectual commodity for these
clients.  Such academic entrepreneur characters not only benefit
financially from these arrangements, but also seem to become very
influential within the university system, while the cognitariat works
for very little if anything at all.  It seems that both academic
entrepreneurs and university administration is happy with this
division of intellectual labor and does everything they can to keep
the cognitariat in its place in that system.