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Unusual Business: A University Press Goes Private, And No One is the Wiser

Unusual Business:   A University Press Goes Private, And No One is the Wiser

Difficult questions remain unanswered about how the University of Amsterdam ushered the privatization of Amsterdam University Press, colluded in embellishing the shift’s circumstances, and what that tells us about the value of academic labor when leaders of a public university embrace rather than resist breakneck capitalism.

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