University as factory

What role do colleges and universities play in the global capitalist order? How does escalating student debt fit within broader political-economic trends and tendencies? What does the Edu-factory Collective mean when it claims that "what was once the factory is now the university"? C.S. Soong of Pacifica Radio's "Against the Grain" plays Max Haiven navigating through these issues in a recent talk.

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The Edu-factory Collective, Toward a Global Autonomous University Autonomedia, 2009.

Gigi Roggero, The Production of Living Knowledge Temple U. Press, 2011.

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