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  • Against Hope Labour in the Public Humanities

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  • Jamie Paris
  • Journal:
    Public Humanities / Volume 1 / 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 January 2025, e40
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  • This article argues that the number of tenure-line academic positions has been shrinking for decades, and that non-tenure track workers are being asked to do more un- and under-compensated publishing, editing, and peer review labour this labour. This is all having a detrimental impact on larger, public humanities based projects. Often, non-tenure track faculty are paid for their hard earned expertise in a currency of hope, or in the implicit promise of future opportunities. Large public humanities programs, should resist the temptation to use hope labour and gig workers.