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Academia, Inc.: How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

by Jamie Brownlee
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781552667354
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
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  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: USD 24.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 205 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Administration / Higher

Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada's higher education system.

Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions -- the university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the history, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book explores how this transformation has taken shape and its ramifications for both universities and society as a whole. Brownlee suggests several strategies for resisting this process.

Jamie Brownlee obtained his PhD in sociology and political economy from Carleton University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of Canadian and international political economy, corporate crime, freedom of information, environmental politics and climate change, and the sociology of education. He is the author of Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy and co-editor of Access to Information and Social Justice: Critical Research Strategies for Journalists, Scholars and Activists.

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