Joe Berry, Helena Worthen
Power Despite Precarity
Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education
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Joe Berry, Helena Worthen
Power Despite Precarity
Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education
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A key organizing tool for casualized higher education faculty from longtime movement activists
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A key organizing tool for casualized higher education faculty from longtime movement activists
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Wildcat
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Seitenzahl: 320
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 135mm x 215mm x 26mm
- Gewicht: 328g
- ISBN-13: 9780745345529
- ISBN-10: 0745345522
- Artikelnr.: 61481145
- Wildcat
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Seitenzahl: 320
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 135mm x 215mm x 26mm
- Gewicht: 328g
- ISBN-13: 9780745345529
- ISBN-10: 0745345522
- Artikelnr.: 61481145
Joe Berry is a founder of the Chicago Coalition of Academic Labor and a long-time leader of the international COCAL and New Faculty Majority. He has served on many national contingent faculty committees. He is the author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education (Monthly Review Press, 2005).
Photographs
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
PART I - THE CASE OF THE LECTURERS IN THE CSU SYSTEM
1. Student Strikes and Union Battles
2. Layoffs and Hard Years for Organizing
3. Revolution in the Union
4. "They have nothing to teach us"
PART II - HIGHER ED WAS NEVER A LEVEL TERRAIN OF STRUGGLE
5. Four Transitions and How Casualization Served Managers
PART III - WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT THE CFA GOT
6. Blue Sky #1 Organizing and Economics
7. Blue Sky #2 Job Security, Academic Freedom and the Common Good
8. Beyond the Sausage-making: A Close Look at the CFA-CSU Contract
PART IV - THE DIFFICULTY OF THINKING STRATEGICALLY
9. Strategies Emerging From Practice
10. The Contingent Faculty Movement as a Social Movement
PART V - SEVEN TROUBLESOME QUESTIONS
11. What Gets People Moving?
12. Who is the Enemy? Who are Our Allies?
13. What is "Professionalism" for Us?
14. How Does It Feel?
15. Is this legal?
16. What About Leftists?
17. How Do We Deal With Union Politics?
PART VI - USING THE POWER WE HAVE
18. Hopes and Dangers
Essential Terms
John Hess: A Life in the Movement
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
PART I - THE CASE OF THE LECTURERS IN THE CSU SYSTEM
1. Student Strikes and Union Battles
2. Layoffs and Hard Years for Organizing
3. Revolution in the Union
4. "They have nothing to teach us"
PART II - HIGHER ED WAS NEVER A LEVEL TERRAIN OF STRUGGLE
5. Four Transitions and How Casualization Served Managers
PART III - WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT THE CFA GOT
6. Blue Sky #1 Organizing and Economics
7. Blue Sky #2 Job Security, Academic Freedom and the Common Good
8. Beyond the Sausage-making: A Close Look at the CFA-CSU Contract
PART IV - THE DIFFICULTY OF THINKING STRATEGICALLY
9. Strategies Emerging From Practice
10. The Contingent Faculty Movement as a Social Movement
PART V - SEVEN TROUBLESOME QUESTIONS
11. What Gets People Moving?
12. Who is the Enemy? Who are Our Allies?
13. What is "Professionalism" for Us?
14. How Does It Feel?
15. Is this legal?
16. What About Leftists?
17. How Do We Deal With Union Politics?
PART VI - USING THE POWER WE HAVE
18. Hopes and Dangers
Essential Terms
John Hess: A Life in the Movement
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photographs
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
PART I - THE CASE OF THE LECTURERS IN THE CSU SYSTEM
1. Student Strikes and Union Battles
2. Layoffs and Hard Years for Organizing
3. Revolution in the Union
4. "They have nothing to teach us"
PART II - HIGHER ED WAS NEVER A LEVEL TERRAIN OF STRUGGLE
5. Four Transitions and How Casualization Served Managers
PART III - WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT THE CFA GOT
6. Blue Sky #1 Organizing and Economics
7. Blue Sky #2 Job Security, Academic Freedom and the Common Good
8. Beyond the Sausage-making: A Close Look at the CFA-CSU Contract
PART IV - THE DIFFICULTY OF THINKING STRATEGICALLY
9. Strategies Emerging From Practice
10. The Contingent Faculty Movement as a Social Movement
PART V - SEVEN TROUBLESOME QUESTIONS
11. What Gets People Moving?
12. Who is the Enemy? Who are Our Allies?
13. What is "Professionalism" for Us?
14. How Does It Feel?
15. Is this legal?
16. What About Leftists?
17. How Do We Deal With Union Politics?
PART VI - USING THE POWER WE HAVE
18. Hopes and Dangers
Essential Terms
John Hess: A Life in the Movement
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
PART I - THE CASE OF THE LECTURERS IN THE CSU SYSTEM
1. Student Strikes and Union Battles
2. Layoffs and Hard Years for Organizing
3. Revolution in the Union
4. "They have nothing to teach us"
PART II - HIGHER ED WAS NEVER A LEVEL TERRAIN OF STRUGGLE
5. Four Transitions and How Casualization Served Managers
PART III - WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT THE CFA GOT
6. Blue Sky #1 Organizing and Economics
7. Blue Sky #2 Job Security, Academic Freedom and the Common Good
8. Beyond the Sausage-making: A Close Look at the CFA-CSU Contract
PART IV - THE DIFFICULTY OF THINKING STRATEGICALLY
9. Strategies Emerging From Practice
10. The Contingent Faculty Movement as a Social Movement
PART V - SEVEN TROUBLESOME QUESTIONS
11. What Gets People Moving?
12. Who is the Enemy? Who are Our Allies?
13. What is "Professionalism" for Us?
14. How Does It Feel?
15. Is this legal?
16. What About Leftists?
17. How Do We Deal With Union Politics?
PART VI - USING THE POWER WE HAVE
18. Hopes and Dangers
Essential Terms
John Hess: A Life in the Movement
Notes
Bibliography
Index