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Alexander Gallas: Precarious academic labour in Germany : termed contracts and a new Berufsverbot. // In: Global Labour Journal. - 9 (2018),1, S. 92-102https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/3391https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v9i1.3391The existence of institutional mechanisms in higher education that reproduce the status quo gives rise to the question of where and how activists can intervene to challenge it. ...The biggest organisation that has been working to expose precarious academic labour and the insecurity of mid-level faculty in recent years is the Education and Science Workers’ Union (GEW). ...The Network for Decent Work in Academia (NGAWiss) is a new initiative in the field of academic labour activism. ...I see three strategic challenges that activists will have to tackle ...Obviously, the campaigns and interventions of GEW and NGAWiss are only first steps in preparing the ground for a broader movement. ...