Cogs in the Classroom Factory: The Changing Identity of Academic Labor - Couverture rigide

Herman, Deborah M.; Schmid, Julie M.

 
9780897898140: Cogs in the Classroom Factory: The Changing Identity of Academic Labor
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0897898141 ISBN 13 : 9780897898140
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2003

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Deborah M. Herman is an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at the University of Iowa.

Julie M. Schmid received her PhD in English from the University of Iowa.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0897898141
ISBN 13 
9780897898140
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
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