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March 29, 2017
Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement
- Author
- Johnson, Benjamin, Patrick Kavanagh, and Kevin Mattson, eds.
- Publisher
- Routledge, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 415934842
- Table of Contents
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Introduction: Not Your Parents' University or Labor Movement Any Longer
Sect. 1 The Rise of the Corporate University
ch. 1 None of Your Business: The Rise of the University of Phoenix and For-Profit Education - and Why It Will Fail Us All (A.M. Cox)
ch. 2 Digital Diploma Mills (D. Noble)
ch. 3 Inefficient Efficiency: A Critique of Merit Pay
ch. 4 The Drain-O of Higher Education: Casual Labor and University Teaching (B. Johnson)
Sect. 2 Laboring Within
ch. 5 How I Became a Worker (K. Mattson)
ch. 6 The Art of Work in the Age of the Adjunct (A. Moore)
ch. 7 Blacklisted and Blue: On Theory and Practice at Yale (R. Corey)
ch. 8 Tenure Denied: Union Busting and Anti-Intellectualism in the Corporate University (J. Westheimer)
Sect. 3 Organizing
ch. 9 The Campaign for Union Rights at NYU (I. Jessup)
ch. 10 Democracy Is an Endless Organizing Drive: Learning from the Failure and Future of Graduate Student Organizing at the University of Minnesota (M. Brown, R. Copher and K. Gray Brown)
ch. 11 Moving River Barges: Labor Activism and Academic Organizations (C. Nelson)
ch. 12 Social Movement Unionism and Adjunct Faculty Organizing in Boston (G. Gottfired and G. Zabel)
ch. 13 Renewing Academic Unions and Democracy at the Same Time: The Case of the California Faculty Association (S. Meisenhelder)
Conclusion: The Future of Higher Education and Academic Labor
Notes
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index
Steal This University explores the paradox of academic labor. Universities do not exist to generate a profit from capital investment, yet contemporary universities are increasingly using corporations as their model for internal organization. While the media, politicians, business leaders and the general public all seem to share a remarkable consensus that higher education is indispensable to the future of nations and individuals alike, within academia bitter conflicts brew over the shape of tomorrow's universities. Contributors to the volume range from the star academic to the disgruntled adjunct and each bring a unique perspective to the discussion on the academy's over-reliance on adjuncts and teaching assistants, the debate over tenure and to the valiant efforts to organize unions and win rights. (From the Publisher)