Wage theft and casual work are built into university business models
- Written by Damien Cahill, Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
The COVID crisis has exposed the destructive consequences of an over-reliance on casual labour across the economy. Australian universities provide one of the clearest examples of this. For the past two decades, universities have leaned into international student fees on the revenue side and casual workers on the expense side.
This approach...





