TY  - GEN
T1  - Contingent faculty and the remaking of higher education : a labor history
T2  - Working class in American history.
A2  - Fure-Slocum, Eric Jon
A2  - Goldstene, Claire
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1381733110
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 296
CN  - LB2334 .C84 2024
SN  - 9780252055201
SN  - 0252055209
SN  - 9780252045547
SN  - 9780252087653
KW  - College teachers : Salaries, etc. : United States.
KW  - College teachers, Part-time : Salaries, etc. : United States.
KW  - College personnel management : United States.
KW  - College teachers' unions : United States.
KW  - Collective bargaining : College teachers : United States.
KW  - Salaires : Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) : États-Unis.
KW  - Universités : États-Unis : Personnel : Direction.
KW  - Négociations collectives : Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) : États-Unis.
KW  - Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) : Syndicats : États-Unis.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - Collective bargaining : College teachers
KW  - College personnel management
KW  - College teachers, Part-time : Salaries, etc.
KW  - College teachers : Salaries, etc.
KW  - College teachers' unions
KW  - United States
KW  - Education.
ER  -