This article investigates the working conditions and career aspirations of adjunct professors (Aps) in Italy. It is based on the results of a national survey carried out in 2018 collecting information on a representative sample of 5556 respondents distributed across all Italian universities, on semi-structured interviews with 35 APs, and on an auto-ethnographic study conducted in 2018 during trade union assemblies with precarious academic workers at ten Italian universities. APs are considered as a litmus test for observing how the academic structure and career paths have changed in recent decades in Italy. More specifically, we look at how teaching activities’ loss of prestige as ‘non-market’ activities results in both a loss of academic opportunity for pursuing a future career and a worsening of the present teaching work conditions. In this regard, we combined Bourdieu’s field theory and Schütz’s social phenomenology, with the recent literature on new forms of unpaid work. Departing from this conceptual frame, in the analysis we explore how working as APs may be seen as an invisible form of unpaid work produced by the new logic of the Italian academic field, which also rules the ways in which economic and symbolic capitals are distributed, affecting the possibility of pursuing an academic career.

本文调查了意大利兼职教授（Aps）的工作条件和职业理想。它基于2018年进行的全国调查的结果，该调查收集了分布在意大利所有大学中的5556名受访者的代表性样本的信息，对35个AP的半结构化访谈以及2018年在贸易期间进行的民族志研究的信息与十所意大利大学pre可危的学术工作者组成的工会大会。在意大利，近几十年来，AP被视为一项试金石，以观察其学术结构和职业道路是如何变化的。更具体地说，我们考察教学活动的“作为非市场活动”的声誉丧失如何导致追求未来职业的学术机会的丧失以及对当前教学工作条件的教导。在这方面，我们结合了布尔迪厄的场论和舒茨的社会现象学，以及有关新型无偿工作形式的最新文献。脱离此概念框架，在分析中，我们探索了如何将AP的工作视为一种看不见的形式。意大利学术领域的新逻辑所产生的无偿工作，这也支配着经济和象征性资本的分配方式，从而影响了从事学术职业的可能性。