Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education

A Labor History
Herausgeber: Goldstene, Claire; Fure-Slocum, Eric

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Working Class in American History
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 236mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780252087653
• ISBN-10: 0252087658
• Artikelnr.: 68887567

Autorenporträt

Edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Framing Contingency in Higher Education
Introduction  A Labor History of Contingent Faculty  Eric Fure-Slocum
1  From the Margins to the Center: Negotiating a New Academy  Gary Rhoades
Part I: The Making of a Contingent Faculty Majority
2  Framing Part I: R-E-S-P-E-C-T  Elizabeth Hohl
3  “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
4  Why Faculty Casualization? Its Origins and the Present Challenges of the
Contingent Faculty Movement  Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
5  Women’s Work: A Feminist Rethinking of Contingent Labor in the Academy 
Gwendolyn Alker
6  Contingency across Higher Education  Sue Doe and Steven Shulman
Part II: Contingency at Work and in the Workplace
7  Framing Part II: Multiple Contingencies  Aimee Loiselle
8  Social Dirt, Liminality, and the Adjunct Predicament  Claire Raymond
9  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Being Contingent and Female in STEM
Fields  Diane Angell
10  Talking Back against Ableism, Ageism, and Contingency as a Latinx
Instructor and First-Generation Scholar  Miguel Juárez
11  Graduate Student Labor, Contingency, and Power  Erin Hatton
12  Common Ground for the Common Good: What We Mean When We Say “Faculty
Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions”  Maria C. Maisto
Part III: Challenging Precarity and Contingency in Higher Education
13  Framing Part III: “To Move Things Forward”  Anne Wiegard
14  So Many Roads, So Much at Stake: The Composition of Faculty Bargaining
Units  William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald
15  Graduate Worker Organizing and the Challenges of Precarity in Higher
Education  Jeff Schuhrke
16  From Community of Interest to Imagined Communities: Organizing Academic
Labor in the Washington, DC Area  Anne McLeer
17  The “Army of Temps” in the House of Labor: How California’s Public
Sector Labor Unions Struggle to Resist the De-Professionalization of
College Teachers  Trevor Griffey
18  Casualization in the United Kingdom: Causes, Scale, and Resistance 
Steven Parfitt
Paths Forward for Academic Labor and Higher Education
19  Building Labor Solidarity across Tenure Lines  Naomi R. Williams and
Jiyoon Park
20  How the Isolation of Contingency Undermines the Public Good of
Education  Claire Goldstene
Contributors
Index