This study examines the impact of managerialist policies on care relations in higher education. It is based on a study of 10 higher education institutions in Ireland. The paper shows that a care-free worker model is ingrained in systems of performance appraisal, especially for academics in universities, and increasingly in the Institutes of Technology, although it also impacts on support staff in other professions and occupations. It assumes a life of boundary-less working hours and unhindered mobility. The market-informed tools of performance appraisal, especially audits and metrics, cannot measure essential care work because care is a process and disposition, not a product. Because it is not countable caring becomes invisible as do the people who do it. The managerial ideology of ‘work–life balance’ merely operates as a mask that conceals how over-working is normalised. There is no legitimate language to name over-working for the structural problem that it is. When work organisations disregard care commitments outside of work, and even within it, these are then repackaged and fed back to women/carers as personal problems and failures. The idealised care-free worker model operates as a care ceiling over women particularly; it is taken as given, even natural.

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高等教育的护理上限

本研究考察了管理主义政策对高等教育护理关系的影响。它基于对爱尔兰 10 所高等教育机构的研究。该论文表明，无忧无虑的工人模式在绩效评估系统中根深蒂固，尤其是对于大学的学者，并且越来越多地存在于技术学院，尽管它也影响到其他专业和职业的支持人员。它假设一种无边界的工作时间和不受阻碍的流动性的生活。以市场为导向的绩效评估工具，尤其是审计和指标，无法衡量基本护理工作，因为护理是一个过程和处置，而不是一个产品。因为它是不可数的，关怀变得无形，就像做这件事的人一样。“工作与生活平衡”的管理意识形态只是一个面具，掩盖了过度工作是如何正常化的。没有合法的语言来命名过度工作的结构性问题。当工作组织忽视工作之外甚至工作内部的护理承诺时，这些承诺会被重新包装并作为个人问题和失败反馈给女性/护理人员。理想化的无照工人模式尤其是对女性的照料上限；它被视为给定的，甚至是自然的。理想化的无照工人模式尤其是对女性的照料上限；它被视为给定的，甚至是自然的。理想化的无照工人模式尤其是对女性的照料上限；它被视为给定的，甚至是自然的。