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Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart
of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty
'contingents' who work without basic job security, living wages or
benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power
to shape the future of higher education. Power Despite Precarity is
part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in
this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four
historical periods that led to major transitions in the worklives
of faculty of this sector. They then take a deep dive into the
30-year-long struggle by California State University lecturers to
negotiate what is recognized as the best contract for contingents
in the US. The authors ask: what is the role of universities in
society? Whose interests should they serve? What are the necessary
conditions for the exercise of academic freedom? Providing
strategic insight for activists at every organizing level, they
also tackle 'troublesome questions' around legality, union
politics, academic freedom and how to recognize friends (and foes)
in the struggle.
Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart
of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty
'contingents' who work without basic job security, living wages or
benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power
to shape the future of higher education. Power Despite Precarity is
part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in
this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four
historical periods that led to major transitions in the worklives
of faculty of this sector. They then take a deep dive into the
30-year-long struggle by California State University lecturers to
negotiate what is recognized as the best contract for contingents
in the US. The authors ask: what is the role of universities in
society? Whose interests should they serve? What are the necessary
conditions for the exercise of academic freedom? Providing
strategic insight for activists at every organizing level, they
also tackle 'troublesome questions' around legality, union
politics, academic freedom and how to recognize friends (and foes)
in the struggle.
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
This is... A book about work, at a time when there are too few
jobs; A book about labor at a time when hardly anyone be-longs to a
union; A book about knowledge and what you already know; A book
about learning that says here's how you did it; A book for working
people, for teachers, and for the labor movement; A book for
everyone who has ever asked, "Can they get away with that?"
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