The Funnelling: Higher Education for Labour-power Production in the Shadow of Covid-19
This paper – recently published in The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies – is now available at ResearchGate and Academia.
Abstract
This article explores
how the UK Conservative Government’s Department for Education is taking
advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to restructure higher education in England
towards labour-power production. There is nothing new in UK governments seeking
to reshape higher education for labour-power development. But under cover of
apparent concern for students’ well-being in the pandemic, the consequences for
higher education institutions viewed as slacking or heel-dragging regarding
their labour-power production drives have never been greater following the
publication of Establishment of a Higher Education Restructuring Regime in
Response to Covid-19 (DfE, 2020a): market exit and closure. The Great
Interruption in labour-power production generated by Covid-19 can pose the
question of whether we continue to assent to our labour-power being shaped for
capital, or whether we redirect flows of labour-power development in directions
of post-capitalist futures.
Keywords: Covid-19, higher education, labour-power, educational restructuring, Great Interruption
@ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354723043_The_Funnelling_Higher_Education_for_Labour-power_Production_in_the_Shadow_of_Covid-19 and http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Glenn-Rikowski
@ Academia: https://www.academia.edu/53201438/The_Funnelling_Higher_Education_for_Labour_power_Production_in_the_Shadow_of_Covid_19 and http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
Glenn Rikowski
London
18 October 2021
