"Marc Bousquet's "How the University Works" should be required
reading for anyone with an interest in the future of higher
education, including administrators, faculty members, graduate
students, and--even more significantly--undergraduates and their
parents."
--Thomas Hart Benton, "The Chronicle of Higher Education"
""How the University Works" is a serious wake-up call for the
entire profession, and, based on what I overheard at the [2007 MLA]
book fair, Bousquet is about to emerge as the Al Gore of higher
education."
aThomas Hart Benton, The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Marc Bousquet is the most trenchant theorist of the current
academic labor situation, and How the University Works is the best
study of academic labor conditions in the U.S. since the 1970s. It
is thoroughly and creatively researched, theoretically bold, often
mercifully frank, and frequently poignant in its arguments and
findings."
aVincent B. Leitch, General Editor of the Norton Anthology of
Theory and Criticism
As much as we think we know about the modern university, very
little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of
the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus
employees a including the vast majority of faculty a really work in
the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy.
Tenure-track positions are at an all-time low, with adjuncts and
graduate students teaching the majority of courses. This
super-exploited corps of disposable workers commonly earn fewer
than $16,000 annually, without benefits, teaching as many as eight
classes per year. Even undergraduates are being exploited as a
low-cost, disposable workforce.
Marc Bousquet, a majorfigure in the academic labor movement,
exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education a a world where
faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for
fast-food wages. Assessing the costs of higher educations
corporatization on faculty and students at every level, How the
University Works is urgent reading for anyone interested in the
fate of the university. ALSO OF INTEREST Author interview with Cary
Nelson Author Blog on "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Call to
Arms for Academic Labor--Review by "Inside Higher Ed" Author's Blog
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