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Author Bousquet, Marc, 1963-

Title How the university works : higher education and the low-wage nation / Marc Bousquet ; foreword by Cary Nelson.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.2813781 B669h 2008    ---  Available
Description xviii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Cultural front
Cultural front (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index.
Contents Introduction : your problem is my problem -- The informal economy of the "information university" -- The faculty organize, but management enjoys solidarity -- Students are already workers -- Composition as management science -- The rhetoric of "job market" and the reality of the academic labor system -- Appendix A: Yeshiva University 444 US 672, "Justice Brennan, dissenting" -- Appendix B: Brown University 1-RC-21368, "Liebman and Walsh, dissenting."
Subject College teachers -- Salaries, etc. -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Salaries, etc. -- United States.
ISBN 0814799752 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814799758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814799741 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814799744 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NZ1 11612918

 
    
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