{"id":4400,"date":"2020-01-04T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T08:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2020-01-04T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T08:34:04","slug":"check-this-out-a-real-conversation-about-academic-hours-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/2020\/01\/04\/check-this-out-a-real-conversation-about-academic-hours-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"Check this out: A Real Conversation About Academic Hours Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In November, celebrated classicist Mary Beard started a Twitter storm when she asked faculty colleagues to share how many hours a week they typically work. Beard helpfully identified her own\u00a0working hours<\/a>\u00a0as somewhere north of 100 each week.<\/p>\n

That figure elicited widespread shock and dismay — and anger, frustration and accusations of ableism in the protection of status for those who are physically capable of shouldering a bruising schedule. Some respondents correlated academics\u2019 tendency to overwork with an abusive employment culture that extracts more labor from ever fewer laborers, enabling the rapid shrinkage of the professoriate.<\/p>\n

A surfeit of pride in one\u2019s in-demand status has come to be called a \u201cbusy brag.\u201d The busy brag has attracted media attention over the past several years; see, for example,\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>. A recent article in\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>\u00a0links the busy brag to a reversal of Thorstein Veblen\u2019s theory of labor and status. In his\u00a0Theory of the Leisure Class<\/em>\u00a0(1899), Veblen wrote, \u201cThe conspicuous abstention from labor becomes the conventional mark of superior pecuniary achievement.\u201d Not so today. Not so in higher education. Not so more widely.<\/p>\n

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In November, celebrated classicist Mary Beard started a Twitter storm when she asked faculty colleagues to share how many hours a week they typically work. Beard helpfully identified her own\u00a0working hours\u00a0as somewhere north of 100 each week. That figure elicited widespread shock and dismay — and anger, frustration and accusations of ableism in the protection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,282,283],"tags":[744,742,741,743,737],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-personal","category-motivational-quotes","tag-academic-hours","tag-academician","tag-people","tag-scientist","tag-successful","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}