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Introduction ♦  17 exclusion would imply, I do not engage with their lives and careers in detail. I see their story, however, in terms of different career choices, not academic failure, and I offer examples illustrating that a university professorship was not always the preferred career choice. Especially given the recent situation in the global academic job market, the story of the academic precariat is probably more necessary than ever, and this book should serve as an invita- tion for future scholars to tell it.