Academics, Cultural Workers and Critical Labour Studies

Journal of Cultural Economy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-30

  Gill, Rosalind ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academia; labour; neoliberalism; precarity; surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890857969     PISSN: 17530350     EISSN: 17530369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.861763     Document Type: Article

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