Reclaiming the Ivory Tower examines the situation of adjunct
professors in U.S. higher education today, describes the process of
organizing them to improve their conditions of work, and puts
forward an agenda around which adjunct labor can mobilize and
transform the universities.
In the last twenty years, higher education in the United States
has been eroded by massive reliance on temporary academic
labor--professors without tenure or prospect of tenure, without
benefits, working without offices or research assistance, often
commuting between several campuses, and paid a fraction of the
salaries of the tenured colleagues. Contingent faculty now
constitutes the majority of faculty at U.S. colleges and
universities.
Analyzing the changing composition of the academic workforce,
assessing the strength of new organizing initiatives among
adjuncts, and weighing up their strategic options, this is the most
comprehensive and engaged account to date of an issue that will
become increasingly important for the future of higher education in
the United States and in the global context.
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