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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מחברים אחרים: Fure-Slocum, Eric Jon (Editor), Goldstene, Claire (Editor)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
סדרה:Working class in American history.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.8916141
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.