The Segmentation of Academic Labour: A Canadian Example

Harald Bauder

Academia increasingly faces pressures of corporatization and flexibilization. Of particular concern is the segmentation of academic labour into stable tenured or tenure-track professors and “flexible” sessional and adjunct faculty. In this paper, I review evidence of the segmentation of the Canadian academic labour market, examine the conditions that permit segmentation to exist, discuss why academic geographers in both segments comply with a segmented labour market and, finally, propose potential strategies to address the issue of segmentation.

This is the abstract for a 2006 paper, "The Segmentation of Academic Labour: A Canadian Example," ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, V 4 (2), 228-239 by Harald Bauder. Harald is, as of January 2009, at Ryerson. The paper can be downloaded here.

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