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Unionization in the Academy presents an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive treatment of academic unions--their history, purpose, and the conflicts they cause.
List of contents
Part 1 PART I: Commentary Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Faculty Unions: Background and History Chapter 4 Arguments For and Against Faculty Unions, and The Problem of Legitimacy Chapter 5 The Yeshiva Decision and Unions at Private Institutions Chapter 6 Major Effects of Faculty Unionization Chapter 7 Unionization Among Part-Time Faculty Chapter 8 Graduate Student Unions Chapter 9 Unionization for Undergraduate RAs: One Case Study Chapter 10 Conclusion Part 11 PART II: Selected Readings Part 12 Section I: Faculty Unions and Academic Politics Chapter 13 Professors, Unions, and American Higher Education: "Concluding Observations" Chapter 14 Academic Politics: "Faculty Unions and the Academic Perception" Chapter 15 "Restoring Sanity to an Academic World Gone Mad" Chapter 16 "Are Unions Good for Professors?" Part 17 Section II: Faculty Unions and the Legal Landscape Chapter 18 "Collective Bargaining and the Professoriate: What the Law Says" Chapter 19 "The Yeshiva Faculty Union: Tales Told Out of School" Part 20 Section III: Unionization and Part-Time Faculty Chapter 21 "To Many Adjuncts, Academic Freedom is a Myth: As the ranks of part-timers swell, they lament how easily colleges can dump them" Chapter 22 "The AAUP Organizes Part-Time Faculty: An Experiment in Community Responsibility Suggests that Part- and Full-Time Faculty Can Enrich Another's Professional Lives" Part 24 Selected Bibliography
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By Judith Wagner DeCew
Summary
Unionization in the Academy presents an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive treatment of academic unions—their history, purpose, and the conflicts they cause.
