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The Limits of Public Work What seems unavoidable is the conclusion that the middleclass effort to use expertise as a way to sustain privilege and solidify its status, distinguishing its paid work from that of mere “laborers,” is under siege. Even among the professoriate. Academics are certifiers but the certified are not immune from the process of capitalist de-skilling. In 1998, I presented in HEX a view of faculty and institutions of higher education as challenged and transformed by the not very subtle pressure of market values, incentives, and more ominously, disincentives. 3 Faculty, I argued, were increasingly positioned to view themselves as entrepreneurs within their various worlds of practice and institutions and hustle accordingly or else. The nightmare alternative; mere worker bee teaching machine, just another weary member of a vast and growing training sector, proletarians in the knowledge factories of postindustrial, globalizing late capitalism. For a powerful fleshing out of my argument, faculty all over the world might wish to reflect upon David Noble’s 2002 book Digital Diploma Mills. Men and women who prepare and decorate a kingdom of knowledge no longer govern it; are no longer members of an association of producers unless that is, as Noble suggests, they consciously resist those transformations in higher education that seem on first analysis to be inevitable; beyond human or political control. They should do so both for themselves and potentially all workers. But they must first understand the stakes involved in their resistance and maintain a clear-headed appreciation for the tenaciousness of what they’re resisting. And it isn’t just a “bad apple” dean, harried university president, or shortsighted state legislature. I’ll readily admit that scholars and faculty are not deskilled in the same way that the demand for increased efficiency and productivity press upon the factory worker who having just learned the computer, discovers the robot’s taken his job while he was learning CAD at the community college. You can’t take away a PhD but you can judge its base of knowledge “old.” 3 Stanley, “Proles, Entrepreneurs, or Public Scholars?” 35
Agent of Democracy There are many ways to diminish status and discount productive labor, tailored to every job site! As the knowledge-making and disseminating “line” picks up speed, the slackers get identified and, tenured as they may be, they move on down that line, are invited to teach Freshman Intro, nudged from the center of institutional governance and become the “dead weight” that neoliberal assumptions about the atavistic nature of tenure predict. Or, more concretely, do not get that merit raise. For those “gypsy” academics without tenure or for adjuncts, forget dignity, appreciation, health benefits, or time to enjoy either teaching or a social world of work. For them, moving into the public sphere may well be both a strategic choice but also a way to find work worthy of one’s intellectual passions. At least until they discover that the NGO sector and government work have their own pressures and market-based demands bearing upon them. The dreamy image of the study, the crackling fire, and the classics text opened in the lap while the professor, lost in subtle reverie regarding the perennial foibles of the human condition, sips port is more joke than desired. 4 Zipping from foundation headquarters to professional meetings to wherever the frontiers of knowledge need a boost or a university a temporary visiting star, “Fast World” 5 entrepreneurial faculty appear more Donald Trump than rumpled tweed no matter the quaintness of the actual costume they wear. Fast World does not encourage wasteful reflection. Unless that is, an organizational expert can “prove” that reflection or a “democratic” workplace or managerial practices that seem superficially democratic (until the pink slip arrives) enhance some aspect of production. Unless reflection creates “value-added,” reappears in positive “outcomes,” helps achieve a “benchmark,” or can be tracked by other profitdriven “assessments,” such as the old standby, “the bottom line,” 4 Johnson, et al., Steal This University: The Rise of the New Imperialism. 5 Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. 36
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