An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences
In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people
teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as
contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the gig
economy: lack of job security and health care, professional
disrespect, and poverty wages that require them to juggle multiple
jobs. This collection draws on a wide range of perspectives to
examine the realities of the contingent faculty system through the
lens of labor history. Essayists investigate structural changes
that have caused the use of contingent faculty to skyrocket and
illuminate how precarity shapes day-to-day experiences in the
academic workplace. Other essays delve into the ways contingent
faculty engage in collective action and other means to resist
austerity measures, improve their working conditions, and instigate
reforms in higher education. By challenging contingency, this
volume issues a clear call to reclaim higher education’s public
purpose. Interdisciplinary in approach and multifaceted in
perspective, Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher
Education surveys the adjunct system and its costs. Contributors:
Gwendolyn Alker, Diane Angell, Joe Berry, Sue Doe, Eric
Fure-Slocum, Claire Goldstene, Trevor Griffey, Erin Hatton, William
A. Herbert, Elizabeth Hohl, Miguel Juárez, Aimee Loiselle, Maria
C. Maisto, Anne McLeer, Steven Parfitt, Jiyoon Park, Claire
Raymond, Gary Rhoades, Jeff Schuhrke, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer,
Steven Shulman, Joseph van der Naald, Anne Wiegard, Naomi R
Williams, and Helena Worthen
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