{"id":11054,"date":"2023-09-04T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2023-09-04T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:38:01","slug":"all-for-chapters-precarity-unions-and-meaningful-work-in-adult-community-and-vocational-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2023\/09\/all-for-chapters-precarity-unions-and-meaningful-work-in-adult-community-and-vocational-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Chapters: Precarity, Unions, and Meaningful Work in Adult, Community, and Vocational Education \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for Chapters: Precarity, Unions, and Meaningful Work in Adult, Community, and Vocational Education <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n


Submit chapters here https:\/\/www.igi-global.com\/publish\/call-for-papers\/submit\/6670<\/a><\/p>\n

Call for Chapters<\/h2>\n

Proposals Submission Deadline: September 22nd<\/sup>, 2023<\/p>\n

Full Chapters Due: December 21, 2023
Submission Date: December 21, 2023<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n

“Neoliberalism has had destructive effects on the academic profession. While fulltime academic employment has always been a privilege for a few, the academic precariat has risen as a reserve army of workers with ever shorter, lower paid, hyper-flexible contracts and ever more temporally fragmented and hyper-mobile lives.” (Ivancheva, 2015, p. 39)<\/p>\n

According to Standing (2016), starting in the 1980\u2019s, globalisation \u201chas generated a class structure, superimposed on earlier structures, comprising an elite, a salariat, proficians and old \u2018core\u2019 working class (proletariat), a precariat, the unemployed and a lumpen-precariat (or “underclass”)\u201d (2014, p. 12) Connecting precariousness with vulnerability Lorey (2011) suggests Precarity is a \u201ccategory [\u2026] that denotes the effects of political, social, and legal compensations for general precariousness\u201d (para. 4). Chinnery explains: \u201cso while we are all vulnerable to whims of fortune, health, violence, and natural disasters, there are some people whose social, economic or political status renders them more vulnerable, more precarious than others\u201d (2015, p. 2). These people, the Precariat, are also susceptible to \u201cthe governmental or the structural ways in which precariousness in distributed and managed\u201d (Lorey, 2011, para. 5), what Chinnery (2015) and Lorey (2011) refer to as Precaritisation.<\/p>\n

Objective<\/h2>\n

This edited volume will provide a comprehensive scan of the politics and policies that inform and shape precarity in adult, community, and vocational education. It will explore the in\/adequacy of existing theories of adult and workplace education and professional development to capture the experiences of the precariat. It will explore the role of unions and union learning in facilitating and combating precarity experienced by educators. It will showcase first-person narratives of educators who experience precaritisation, each and every day. Finally, it will explore the concept of meaningful work and self-care and describe what meaningful work and self-care look and feel like in this landscape of precarity.<\/p>\n

Target Audience<\/h2>\n

Writers, researchers and practitioners in areas of:<\/p>\n