Maria C Maisto Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Hi (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Further DetailsTitle: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher EducationCondition: NewSubtitle: A Labor HistoryISBN-10: 0252087658EAN: 9780252087653ISBN: 9780252087653Publisher: University of Illinois PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/23/2024Description: An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences

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.

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 clear call to reclaim higher education’s public purpose.

Interdisciplinary in approach and multifaceted in perspective, Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education surveys the adjunct system and its costs.

Contributors: Gwendolyn Alker, Diane Angell, Joe Berry, Sue Doe, Eric Fure-Slocum, Claire Goldstene, Trevor Griffey, Erin Hatton, William A. Herbert, Elizabeth Hohl, Miguel Juárez, Aimee Loiselle, Maria C. Maisto, Anne McLeer, Steven Parfitt, Jiyoon Park, Claire Raymond, Gary Rhoades, Jeff Schuhrke, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Steven Shulman, Joseph van der Naald, Anne Wiegard, Naomi R Williams, and Helena Worthen

Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 513gContributor: Eric Fure-Slocum (Edited by), Claire Goldstene (Edited by), Eric Fure-Slocum (Contributions by), Claire Goldstene (Contributions by), Gary Rhoades (Contributions by), Elizabeth Hohl (Contributions by), Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Contributions by), Joe Berry (Contributions by), Helena Worthen (Contributions by), Gwendolyn Alker (Contributions by), Sue Doe (Contributions by), Steven Shulman (Contributions by), Aimee Loiselle (Contributions by), Claire Raymond (Contributions by), Diane Angell (Contributions by), Miguel Juarez (Contributions by), Erin Hatton (Contributions by), Maria C Maisto (Contributions by), Anne Wiegard (Contributions by), William A Herbert (Contributions by), Joseph van der Naald (Contributions by), Jeff Schuhrke (Contributions by), Anne McLeer (Contributions by), Trevor Griffey (Contributions by), Steven Parfitt (Contributions by), Naomi R Williams (Contributions by), Jiyoon Park (Contributions by)Genre: Society & CultureTopic: Children's Learning & Education, Business & Finance, Law & Politics, HistoryBook Series: Working Class in American HistoryAuthor: Maria C MaistoRelease Year: 2024

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