Reviews
What makes this well-written and very readable book unique is that it shows clearly how the crucial issues at stake are not only the subjective factors, such as where it is "better or worse" to work as an academic, but the ways in which structural imbalances increasingly shape the sector globally and reach well beyond the traditional boundaries of academia, thereby impacting on so many other aspects of the lives of individuals working in the field and beyond.
We often forget about the academic profession and the changing academic workplace in contemporary discussions of higher education. Professorial Pathways provides a well-researched global perspective on the academic profession. It shows how academe is changing in ten key countries and permits us to understand the key to university success everywhere—the professoriate.
Finkelstein and Jones have brought together a highly distinguished panel of scholars from around the world. Their comparisons and analyses, based on a vast reservoir of data, give us a new and valuable vista on academic careers.
These case studies from the larger higher-education countries, together with the concluding chapter by the editors of this beautifully presented book, provide a state-of-the-art summary of the worldwide academic professions, deeply variant at the national level yet subject to common and growing pressures.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Academic Profession Enters a New Global Era
Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones
Chapter 2. Germany: Unpredictable Career Progression but Security at the
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Academic Profession Enters a New Global Era
Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones
Chapter 2. Germany: Unpredictable Career Progression but Security at the Top
Barbara M. Kehm
Chapter 3. France: Marginal Formal Changes but Noticeable Evolutions
Christine Musselin
Chapter 4. United Kingdom: Institutional Autonomy and National Regulation, Academic Freedom and Managerial Authority
Peter Scott
Chapter 5. Russia: Higher Education, between Survival and Innovation
Maria Yudkevich
Chapter 6. Brazil: An Emerging Academic Market in Transition
Elizabeth Balbachevsky
Chapter 7. India: The Challenge of Change
N. Jayaram
Chapter 8. China: The Changing Relationship between Academics, Institutions, and the State
Fengqiao Yan and Dan Mao
Chapter 9. Japan: Opening Up the Academic Labor Market
Akiyoshi Yonezawa
Chapter 10. United States: A Story of Marketization, Professional Fragmentation (Stratification), and Declining Opportunity
Martin J. Finkelstein
Chapter 11. Canada: Decentralization, Unionization, and the Evolution of Academic Career Pathways
Glen A. Jones
Chapter 12. Looking across Systems: Implications for Comparative, International Studies of Academic Work
Glen A. Jones and Martin J. Finkelstein
List of Contributors
Index