{"product_id":"contingent-faculty-and-the-remaking-of-higher-education-9780252087653","title":"Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the gig economy: lack of job security and health care, professional disrespect, and poverty wages that require them to juggle multiple jobs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This collection draws on a wide range of perspectives to examine the realities of the contingent faculty system through the lens of labor history. Essayists investigate structural changes that have caused the use of contingent faculty to skyrocket and illuminate how precarity shapes day-to-day experiences in the academic workplace. Other essays delve into the ways contingent faculty engage in collective action and other means to resist austerity measures, improve their working conditions, and instigate reforms in higher education. By challenging contingency, this volume issues a clea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003ePurple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFraming Contingency in Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction  A Labor History of Contingent Faculty  Eric Fure-Slocum \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1  From the Margins to the Center: Negotiating a New Academy  Gary Rhoades \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Making of a Contingent Faculty Majority\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2  Framing Part I: R-E-S-P-E-C-T  Elizabeth Hohl \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4  Why Faculty Casualization? Its Origins and the Present Challenges of the Contingent Faculty Movement  Joe Berry and Helena Worthen \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5  Women’s Work: A Feminist Rethinking of Contingent Labor in the Academy  Gwendolyn Alker \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 6  Contingency across Higher Education  Sue Doe and Steven Shulman \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Contingency at Work and in the Workplace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 7  Framing Part II: Multiple Contingencies  Aimee Loiselle \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 8  Social Dirt, Liminality, and the Adjunct Predicament  Claire Raymond \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 9  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Being Contingent and Female in STEM Fields  Diane Angell \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 10  Talking Back against Ableism, Ageism, and Contingency as a Latinx Instructor and First-Generation Scholar  Miguel Juárez \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 11  Graduate Student Labor, Contingency, and Power  Erin Hatton \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 12  Common Ground for the Common Good: What We Mean When We Say “Faculty Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions”  Maria C. Maisto \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Challenging Precarity and Contingency in Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 13  Framing Part III: “To Move Things Forward”  Anne Wiegard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 14  So Many Roads, So Much at Stake: The Composition of Faculty Bargaining Units  William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 15  Graduate Worker Organizing and the Challenges of Precarity in Higher Education  Jeff Schuhrke \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 16  From Community of Interest to Imagined Communities: Organizing Academic Labor in the Washington, DC Area  Anne McLeer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 18  Casualization in the United Kingdom: Causes, Scale, and Resistance  Steven Parfitt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaths Forward for Academic Labor and Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 19  Building Labor Solidarity across Tenure Lines  Naomi R. Williams and Jiyoon Park \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 20  How the Isolation of Contingency Undermines the Public Good of Education  Claire Goldstene \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400526504279,"sku":"9780252087653","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252087653.jpg?v=1730470898","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contingent-faculty-and-the-remaking-of-higher-education-9780252087653","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}