UK Universities during Covid-19: catastrophic management, ‘business continuity’, and education workers

This chapter provides an overview of the operational and discursive framework employed by the 'senior leadership' of British universities, in those cases where - during the coronovirus pandemic - it attempted to persuade, cajole, or coerce its workforce and student cohort to return to a 'Covid-secure' campus. The analysis covers notions of the 'creditworthy' university, the union/management interface, insentient and social power, and the 2020 strike.