Scholarly Labour & the Fantasy of Self-Fulfillment

Here’s something I wrote in light of recent debates about the role that unionization can play in the recognition of academic work as labour:

https://craftofteachingreligion.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/scholarly-labour-the-fantasy-of-self-fulfillment/

If you’d like to read more about the advances of graduate student unionization, check out the work being done by Graduate Students United at the University of Chicago.

On the other end of the spectrum, if you’d like to read about the perils of poorly strategized unionization, take a look at the collective bargaining situation at the University of Calgary.