Seale and Mirza discuss links between professionalism, credentialing, and precarious labor in academic librarianship and highlight how broader influences of neoliberalism, Whiteness, and concerns centering gender play in the formation of prestige and the implementation or subversion of labor in LIS.
The original low morale study is mentioned within the context of neoliberalism and how low morale is invoked through budget cuts in service of innovation.