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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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IssueVol 1, Issue 5
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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