| Description |
xii, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cultural politics ; v. 12 |
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Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Yale strike dossier -- ch. 1. Short history of unionization at Yale / John Wilhelm -- ch. 2. Against the grain: organizing TAs at Yale / Corey Robin and Michelle Stephens -- ch. 3. Poor, hungry, and desperate? or, privileged, histrionic, and demanding? in search of the true meaning of "Ph. D." / Kathy M. Newman -- ch. 4. Why provoke this strike? Yale and the U.S. economy / Rick Wolff -- ch. 5. Boola / Duncan Kennedy -- ch. 6. Labor behind the cult of work / Andrew Ross -- ch. 7. Proletariat goes to college / Robin D. G. Kelley -- ch. 8. Blessed of the earth / Michael Berube -- pt. 2. Academic workers face the new millennium -- ch. 9. Academic unionism and the future of higher education / Stanley Aronowitz -- ch. 10. Reeling in the years: looking back on the TAA / Daniel Czitrom -- ch. 11. On apprentices and company towns / Stephen Watt -- ch. 12. Scarlet L: gender and status in academe / James D. Sullivan -- ch. 13. Disposable faculty: part-time exploitation as management strategy / Linda Ray Pratt -- ch. 14. Alchemy in the academy: moving part-time faculty from piecework to parity / Karen Thompson -- ch. 15. Will technology make academic freedom obsolete / Ellen Schrecker. |
| Summary |
"Academic labor has never been more vulnerable to exploitation, or more galvanized into action. Threats to tenure, job shortages for new Ph.D.s, and an increasing reliance on poorly paid graduate students and adjunct faculty for teaching are the harsh reality on campuses across the nation. Will Teach for Food provides a clarion call to academic workers, summoning them to take action against the continued decline in working conditions on American campuses. When graduate students at Yale University held a "grade strike" during the 1995-96 academic year, they were protesting policies such as downsizing, subcontracting, and outsourcing - strategies currently wreaking havoc on the larger U.S. workforce. The debates at Yale mirror those on many campuses: whether graduate student teaching assistants are students or employees of the university; whether faculty are management or staff; what constitutes a reasonable teaching load and fair compensation. In Part I of Will Teach for Food, participants describe the Yale student strike and examine what workers on other campuses can learn from this action. In Part II, activists and scholars place the challenge to academic workers in the context of U.S. labor history and assess the impact of university "corporatization" on the communities that surround them and on higher education as a whole." -- Publisher's description. |
| Note |
35902004207243 c.1 Special Collec. Reitz. Gift of Charles Reitz. |
| Subject |
Strikes and lockouts -- Graduate teaching assistants -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
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Yale University -- Faculty -- Salaries, etc.
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College teachers -- Salaries, etc. -- United States.
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College teachers, Part-time -- Salaries, etc. -- United States.
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College teachers -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Teachers' unions -- United States.
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College teachers -- Tenure -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Nelson, Cary.
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| Added Title |
Academic labor in crisis |
| ISBN |
081663033X (alk. paper) |
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9780816630332 (alk. paper) |
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0816630348 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780816630349 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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