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Rhetoric and Resistance in the Corporate Academy (Paperback)
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Rhetoric and Resistance in the Corporate Academy (Paperback)
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In this volume, the author analyzes the heated debates and ongoing
legal struggles between school administrators and academic labor
movements over the rise of part-time and temporary jobs in higher
education. Focusing particular attention on the labor of writing
instruction, the author finds among literacy workers both a deeply
exploited segment of the campus population and a vector of
organized resistance to the flexible hiring and unilateral decision
making that now characterizes the corporate university. Contrary to
visions of ivory tower seclusion, this volume traces continuities
between writing teachers' and students' experiences as corporate
employees, all the while contending that their frequently insecure
positions, inadequate working conditions, minimal benefits, and
marginalized voices constitute a grounds for political alliance.
The author outlines a labor theory of agency that entails
long-range collaboration among tenure-line faculty, part-time and
non-tenure-track teachers, and student social movements, listening
always for harmonies as well as dissonances among their modes of
argument.
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