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“The process of #rationalization central to #capitalism has required the creation of an intermediate stratum comprising the specialists of this rationalization, as #administrators, #technicians, #scientists, #educators. The very complexity of not... Image
... only the #technology but the social system has made it essential that this stratum be large and, over time, expanding.The funds that have been used to support it have been drawn from the global surplus, as extracted through entrepreneurs and states. In this elementary but ...
... fundamental sense these #cadres have therefore been part of the #bourgeoisie whose claim to participation in the sharing-out of the surplus has been given precise ideological form in the twentieth-century concept of #HumanCapital. Having relatively little real capital to ...
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It's great to see that the important role of #technicians in teaching and research is being acknowledged and that measures and policy are being put in play to support them into the future.
However, I still think that research councils, universities and research institutions are still ignoring the elephant in the room that is the thousands or short-term contracted research staff, without whom UK research really wood collapse...
Career pathways for these guys really hasn't changed throughout my career, and it really needs to. Even permanency of employment rules don't seem to have teeth, as their roles are still all-too-often tied to duration of research grants...
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