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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Fure-Slocum and Goldstene chronicle the contingent faculty labor movement in all its creativity and diversity. This collection moves past mere description of the neoliberal academy and the plight of contingent campus workers to weave together analyses, personal narrative, and tactical guidance on organizing in the gig economy while calling for a renewed commitment to cross-rank and cross-campus solidarity among academic workers.”--Julie Schmid, Executive Director, American Association of University Professors
“A book that we have long awaited and needed. Nothing else offers such a broad sweep of perspectives and such a deep historical appreciation of the struggles of contingent academic labor. Anyone interested in the future of higher education, the future of work and workers, or the future of our democracy should read this important book.”--Joseph A. McCartin, coeditor of
Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIUTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Framing Contingency in Higher Education
Introduction A Labor History of Contingent Faculty Eric Fure-Slocum
1 From the Margins to the Center: Negotiating a New Academy Gary Rhoades
Part I: The Making of a Contingent Faculty Majority
2 Framing Part I: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Elizabeth Hohl
3 “Those Who Don’t Accept This Don’t Last Long”: Two Centuries of Cost Cutting and Laboring in the US Higher Education Industry Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
4 Why Faculty Casualization? Its Origins and the Present Challenges of the Contingent Faculty Movement Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
5 Women’s Work: A Feminist Rethinking of Contingent Labor in the Academy Gwendolyn Alker
6 Contingency across Higher Education Sue Doe and Steven Shulman
Part II: Contingency at Work and in the Workplace
7 Framing Part II: Multiple Contingencies Aimee Loiselle
8 Social Dirt, Liminality, and the Adjunct Predicament Claire Raymond
9 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Being Contingent and Female in STEM Fields Diane Angell
10 Talking Back against Ableism, Ageism, and Contingency as a Latinx Instructor and First-Generation Scholar Miguel Juárez
11 Graduate Student Labor, Contingency, and Power Erin Hatton
12 Common Ground for the Common Good: What We Mean When We Say “Faculty Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions” Maria C. Maisto
Part III: Challenging Precarity and Contingency in Higher Education
13 Framing Part III: “To Move Things Forward” Anne Wiegard
14 So Many Roads, So Much at Stake: The Composition of Faculty Bargaining Units William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald
15 Graduate Worker Organizing and the Challenges of Precarity in Higher Education Jeff Schuhrke
16 From Community of Interest to Imagined Communities: Organizing Academic Labor in the Washington, DC Area Anne McLeer
17 The “Army of Temps” in the House of Labor: How California’s Public Sector Labor Unions Struggle to Resist the De-Professionalization of College Teachers Trevor Griffey
18 Casualization in the United Kingdom: Causes, Scale, and Resistance Steven Parfitt
Paths Forward for Academic Labor and Higher Education
19 Building Labor Solidarity across Tenure Lines Naomi R. Williams and Jiyoon Park
20 How the Isolation of Contingency Undermines the Public Good of Education Claire Goldstene
Contributors
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