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Labour and Employment Law · Research Article
Precarious by Design: Labor Insecurity in the Academic Research Workforce — Adjuncts, Postdoctoral Researchers, and Contract Scientists
Prof. Shashank Diwakar
Published10 May 2026
Keywords
"contingent academic labor","postdoctoral precarity","gig academia", "adjunctification", "NLRA employee classification","soft-money funding","academic labor law","fixed-term research contracts"
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