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"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." ""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." "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." 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
View the Table of Contents
The Occupation Cookbook is a "manual" that describes the organization of the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences that took place in the spring of 2009 and lasted for 35 days. It was written for two reasons: to record what happened, and to present the particular organization of this action in such a way that it may be of use to other activists and members of various collectives if they decide to undertake a similar action.
"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." ""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." "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." 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
View the Table of Contents
"Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the
Managed University "exposes the poor working conditions of
contingent composition faculty and explores practical alternatives
to the unfair labor practices that are all too common on campuses
today.
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