Contingent faculty and the remaking of higher education : a labor history /
"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 requir...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Working class in American history.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.8916141 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a labor history of contingent faculty / Eric Fure-Slocum
- From the margins to the center : negotiating a new academy / Gary Rhoades
- Framing Part I : R-E-S-P-E-C-T / Elizabeth Hohl
- "Those who don't accept this don't last long" : two centuries of cost cutting and laboring in the US higher education industry / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
- Why faculty casualization? : its origins and the present challenges of the contingent faculty movement / Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
- Women's work : a feminist rethinking of contingent labor in the academy / Gwendolyn Alker
- Contingency across higher education / Sue Doe and Steven Shulman
- Framing Part II : Multiple contingencies / Aimee Loiselle
- Social dirt, liminality, and the adjunct predicament / Claire Raymond
- The good, the bad, and the ugly : being contingent and female in STEM fields / Diane Angell
- Talking back against ableism, ageism, and contingency as a Latinx instructor and first-generation scholar / Miguel Juárez
- Graduate student labor, contingency, and power / Erin Hatton
- Common ground for the common good : what we mean when we say "faculty working conditions are student learning conditions" / Maria Maisto
- Framing Part III: "To move things forward" / Anne Wiegard
- So many roads, so much at stake : the composition of faculty bargaining units / William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald
- Graduate worker organizing and the challenges of precarity in higher education / Jeff Schuhrke
- From community of interest to imagined communities : organizing academic labor in the Washington, DC, Area / Anne McLeer
- The "army of temps" in the house of labor : how California's public sector labor unions struggle to resist the deprofessionalization of college teachers / Trevor Griffey
- Casualization in the United Kingdom : causes, scale, and resistance / Steven Parfitt
- Building labor solidarity across tenure lines / Naomi R Williams and Jiyoon Park
- How the isolation of contingency undermines the public good of education / Claire Goldstene.