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Imrie, Rob

 
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This book provides a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector. Its focus is the social sciences and, in particular, housing and urban studies. Drawing on a wide range of experiences, both in the UK and elsewhere, it highlights the different ways in which the academy is being put to work for commercial gain and investigates the implications for the academic labour process.

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Chris Allen is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Rob Imrie is Professor of Geography at King's College London, UK and Director of the Cities Group

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