Cogs in the Classroom Factory : The Changing Identity of Academic Labor Hardback
by Deborah M. Herman, Julie M. Schmid
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Brings together essays by tenure-track faculty, adjuncts, and graduate employees from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions in an analysis of the changing identity of academic labor.
The essays included suggest alternatives for responding to the ongoing erosion of tenure and academic freedom and reshaping the academic workplace. Contributors discuss the impact of today's casualized academic job market on faculty's self-perception, political action, and responses to the changing nature of higher education.
The essays included in this collection address a number of topics, including: today's academic labor situation from an educational history perspective, the development of an academic worker identity via the build-up to a strike, the graduate-employee union movement, unionization as a social justice movement, faculty unionization and workplace solidarity, the potential culture clash between professional and blue-collar unions, the faculty's complicity in the creation of a two-tiered job system, and the othering of adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty. By focusing on the state of the academic job system on their campuses, the contributors to this volume suggest some alternatives for responding to the ongoing erosion of tenure and academic freedom in higher education and reshaping the academic workplace.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:28/02/2003
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- ISBN:9780897898140
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:28/02/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780897898140