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International Studies in Sociology of Education, Volume 15, Number 3, 2005
Page 257

Globalisation and Its Educational
Discontents: neoliberalisation and its
impacts on education workers’ rights,
pay and conditions

DAVE HILL
University of Northampton, United Kingdom

ABSTRACT This article examines some impacts of neoliberal education
policies during the current period of the intensification of neoliberal
capital.
Section 1 examines the relationship between education and capital,
identifying
three plans capital has in relation to education. It sets out some of the
major
aspects of neoliberal policy developments in schooling and further
education.
Section 2 describes, analyses and evaluates the research methodology
used in
developing this article, locating the methodology within the debate
between
‘methodological purists’ on the one hand, and ‘committed research’ on
the
other. The research for this article, within the ‘research for social justice’
paradigm, is rationalised. Section 3 examines the impacts of
neoliberalisation
on education workers’ securities – their pay/ salaries, conditions of
employment,
stresses and pressures at work, and their work identity and status. It
also
examines the impacts on the rights and powers of education trade
unions. The
article ends, in Section 4, by briefly calling for resistance to the global
neoliberal
capitalist agenda in schooling and education.

Introduction

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all
social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the
bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations ...
are swept away, all new-formed ones e antiquated before they can
ossify. (Marx & Engels (1977 [1847], p. 38)
This article analyses some of the impacts of the neoliberalisation of
schooling
and further education on teaching and learning in current changing
tim