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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
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
Focusing on mid-century Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the
remaking of political culture in the industrial city. Professor
Fure-Slocum shows how two contending visions of the 1940s city -
working-class politics and growth politics - fit together uneasily
and were transformed amid a series of social and policy clashes.
Contests that pitted the principles of democratic access and
distribution against efficiency and productivity included the
hard-fought politics of housing and redevelopment, controversies
over petty gambling, questions about the role of organized labor in
urban life, and battles over municipal fiscal policy and autonomy.
These episodes occurred during a time of rapid change in the city's
working class, as African-American workers arrived to seek jobs,
women temporarily advanced in workplaces, and labor unions grew. At
the same time, businesses and property owners sought to
re-establish legitimacy in the changing landscape. This study
examines these local conflicts, showing how they forged the postwar
city and laid a foundation for the neoliberal city.
Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long
worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in
this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for
engaged scholarship in the United States and abroad. A diverse
roster of contributors discuss how participation in current labor
and social struggles guides their campus and community organizing,
public history initiatives, teaching, mentoring, and other
activities. They also explore the role of research and scholarship
in social change, while acknowledging that intellectual labor
complements but never replaces collective action and movement
building. Contributors: Kristen Anderson, Daniel E. Atkinson, James
R. Barrett, Susan Roth Breitzer, Susan Chandler, Sam Davies, Dennis
Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, Colin Gordon, Michael Innis-Jimenez,
Stephanie Luce, Joseph A. McCartin, John W. McKerley, Matthew M.
Mettler, Stephen Meyer, David Montgomery, Kim E. Nielsen, Peter
Rachleff, Ralph Scharnau, Jennifer Sherer, Shelton Stromquist,
Emily E. LB. Twarog, and John Williams-Searle.
Focusing on mid-century Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the
remaking of political culture in the industrial city. Professor
Fure-Slocum shows how two contending visions of the 1940s city -
working-class politics and growth politics - fit together uneasily
and were transformed amid a series of social and policy clashes.
Contests that pitted the principles of democratic access and
distribution against efficiency and productivity included the
hard-fought politics of housing and redevelopment, controversies
over petty gambling, questions about the role of organized labor in
urban life, and battles over municipal fiscal policy and autonomy.
These episodes occurred during a time of rapid change in the city's
working class, as African-American workers arrived to seek jobs,
women temporarily advanced in workplaces, and labor unions grew. At
the same time, businesses and property owners sought to
re-establish legitimacy in the changing landscape. This study
examines these local conflicts, showing how they forged the postwar
city and laid a foundation for the neoliberal city.
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