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Book SynopsisWhy the Gig Academy is the dominant organizational form within the higher education economyand its troubling implications for faculty, students, and the future of college education. Over the past two decades, higher education employment has undergone a radical transformation with faculty becoming contingent, staff being outsourced, and postdocs and graduate students becoming a larger share of the workforce. For example, the faculty has shifted from one composed mostly of tenure-track, full-time employees to one made up of contingent, part-time teachers. Non-tenure-track instructors now make up 70 percent of college faculty. Their pay for teaching eight courses averages $22,400 a yearless than the annual salary of most fast-food workers. In The Gig Academy, Adrianna Kezar, Tom DePaola, and Daniel T. Scott assess the impact of this disturbing workforce development. Providing an overarching framework that takes the concept of the gig economy and applies it to the university workforce, t
Trade ReviewThe Gig Academy is a wonderful précis on the dire state of the modern American university.
—Daniel Bessner,
The NationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Putting the Gig Academy in Context: Neoliberalism and Academic Capitalism
Chapter 2. Employees in the Gig Academy: Insecure, Isolated, Exploited, and Devalued
Chapter 3. Disintegrating Relationships and the Demise of Community
Chapter 4. How Employment Practices Negatively Impact Student Learning and Outcomes
Chapter 5. The Growth of Unions and New Broad-Based Organizing Strategies
Chapter 6. Whither the Struggle: Future Trends, Policies, and Actions
Notes
References
Index
