Benjamin Johnson / Patrick Kavanagh / Kevin Mattson (eds.)

Steal This University

The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement
Herausgeber: Johnson, Benjamin; Mattson, Kevin; Kavanagh, Patrick

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Produktbeschreibung

Steal This University explores the paradox of academic labor. Universities do not exist to generate a profit from capital investment, yet contemporary universities are increasingly using corporations as their model for internal organization. While the media, politicians, business leaders and the general public all seem to share a remarkable consensus that higher education is indispensable to the future of nations and individuals alike, within academia bitter conflicts brew over the shape of tomorrow's universities. Contributors to the volume range from the star academic to the disgruntled adjunct and each bring a unique perspective to the discussion on the academy's over-reliance on adjuncts and teaching assistants, the debate over tenure and to the valiant efforts to organize unions and win rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415934831
• ISBN-10: 0415934834
• Artikelnr.: 21905812

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Johnson is Assistant Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. Patrick Kavanagh is a Staff Representative for the Communication Workers of America in Newark, NJ. Kevin Mattson is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: Not Your Father's University or Labor Movement Any Longer
Part I: THE RISE OF THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY 1. None of Your Business: The
Rise of the University of Phoenix and For-profit Education - and Why it
Will Fail Us All, Ana Marie Cox 2. Digital Diploma Mills, David Noble 3.
Inefficient Efficiency: A Critique of Merit Pay, Denise Tanguay 4. The
Drain-o of Higher Education: Casual Labor and University Teaching, Benjamin
Johnson PART II: LABORING WITHIN 5. How I Became a Worker, Kevin Mattson 6.
The Art of Work in the Age of the Adjunct, Alexis Moore 7.Blacklisted and
Blue: On Theory and Practice at Yale, Corey Robin 8. Tenure Denied:
Union-Busting and Anti-Intellectualism in the Corporate University, Joel
Westheimer PART III: ORGANIZING 9.The Campaign for Union Rights at NYU,
Lisa Jessup 10. Democracy is an Endless Organizing Drive: Learning from the
Failure and Future of Graduate Student Organizing at the University of
Minnesota, Michael Brown, Ronda Copher, and Katy Gray Brown 11. Moving
River Barges: Labor Activism and Academic Organizations, Cary Nelson 12.
Social Movement Unionism and Adjunct Faculty Organizing in Boston, Barbara
Gottfried and Gary Zabel 13. Renewing Unions and Democracy at the Same
Time: The Case of the California Faculty Association, Susan Meisenhelder
(with the writing assistance of Kevin Mattson) Conclusion Notes on
Contributors