Capital in Higher Education

This book offers a systematic, sectoral, and in-depth Marxist perspective on the critique of political economy of higher education. It proposes an original method of analysis of higher education as a field of capitalist production, grounded at the intersection of mainstream higher education research and contemporary debates in Marxist theories. At the same time, it imbues a political perspective based on the embedding of higher education within the wider social network of antagonistic relations that traverse the capitalist economy at large.

First notable book-length Marxist analysis of the capitalist transformations of higher education sector Offers a systematic review of the literature on the economic change of the higher education sector in the Global North Presents a comprehensive theory of the differentiated forms of subsumption of academic labour

Auteur

Krystian Szadkowski is Assistant Professor in the Scholarly Communication Research Group at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä, Poland.

Contenu
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. On Method: A Critique of the Political Economy of Higher Education.- Chapter 3. Capital not Market: the Limitations of the Liberal Political Economy of Higher Education.- Chapter 4. Is There a Classical Marxian Circuit of the Industrial Capital in Higher Education?.- Chapter 5. Status and Prestige: The Political Economy of the Academic Field.- Chapter 6. Measure: Capitalist Takeover of Value Signaling in Higher Education.- Chapter 7. Knowledge: Capitalist Contradiction of Open Access.- Chapter 8. Mechanisms of Subsumption of Academic Labour Under Capital.- Chapter 9. Productive and Unproductive Academic Labour.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Beyond Capital.