What’s Love Got to Do with it? Precarious Academic Labour Forces and the Role of Passion in Italian Universities

This article examines the role of passion among precarious labour force in the Italian academia. By relying on C. Wright Mill’s distinction between “passion as a reason” of action and “passion as a motive” to represent and discuss one’s employment condition, the article concludes that the symbolic s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sandro Busso, Paola Rivetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2014-12-01
Series:Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rsa/1243