How the University Works Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation

Name: How the University Works Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
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ISBN: 9780814799758

ISBN-10: 0814799752

ISBN-13: 9780814799758

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marc Bousquet, Cary Nelson

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Marc Bousquet is the most trenchant theorist of the current academic labor situation, and How the University Works is the best study of academic labor conditions in the U.S. since the 1970s. It is thoroughly and creatively researched, theoretically bold, often mercifully frank, and frequently poignant in its arguments and findings. Vincent B. Leitch, General Editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees including the vast majority of faculty really work in the low-wage,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 281
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword: Resistance Is Not Futile




Introduction: Your Problem Is My Problem



The Informal Economy of the "Information University"



The Faculty Organize, But Management Enjoys Solidarity



Students Are Already Workers



Composition as Management Science



The Rhetoric of "Job Market" and the Reality of the Academic Labor System



Yeshiva University 444 US 672, "Justice Brennan, Dissenting"



Brown University 1-RC-21368, "Liebman and Walsh, Dissenting"


Notes


Works Cited


Index


About the Authors