Brings together essays by tenure-track faculty, adjuncts, and
graduate employees from a variety of disciplines and geographical
regions in an analysis of the changing identity of academic labor.
The essays included suggest alternatives for responding to the
ongoing erosion of tenure and academic freedom and reshaping the
academic workplace.
Contributors discuss the impact of today's casualized academic
job market on faculty's self-perception, political action, and
responses to the changing nature of higher education. The essays
included in this collection address a number of topics, including:
today's academic labor situation from an educational history
perspective, the development of an academic worker identity via the
build-up to a strike, the graduate-employee union movement,
unionization as a social justice movement, faculty unionization and
workplace solidarity, the potential culture clash between
professional and blue-collar unions, the faculty's complicity in
the creation of a two-tiered job system, and the othering of
adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty.
By focusing on the state of the academic job system on their
campuses, the contributors to this volume suggest some alternatives
for responding to the ongoing erosion of tenure and academic
freedom in higher education and reshaping the academic
workplace.
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