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"Chalk Lines" is a powerful analysis and indictment of the emerging corporate university. It illuminates the crisis of academic labor by placing it in the context of global economic change. Everyone concerned with higher education should read this book and reflect on it deeply."--Cary Nelson, coauthor of "Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education"
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Education as National Pedagogy / Randy Martin
I: The Whole Business
Academic Capitalism, Managed Professionals, and Supply-Side Higher Education / Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter
Recapturing Academic Business / Christopher Newfield
The Stratification of the Academy / Zelda F. Gamson
The Ascent toward Corporate Managerialism in American and Australian Universities / Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich
II: The Academy's Labor
Education for Public Life / David Montgomery
Doing Academic Work / Stefano Harney and Frederick Moten
Adjuncts and More Adjuncts: Labor Segmentation and the Transformation of Higher Education / Vincent Tirelli
The Last Good Job in America / Stanley Aronowitz
III: Siting Specifics, Striking Back
Education, Job Skills, or Workfare: The Crisis Facing Adult Literacy Education Today / Emily Hacker and Ira Yankwitt
In Defense of CUNY / Bart Meyers
Faculty, Students, and Political Engagement / Jeremy Smith
Need a Break from Your Dissertation? Organize a Union! / William Vaughn
Index
Contributors
About the author
Randy Martin is Chair and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Science and Management at Pratt Institute. He is the author of three books, including Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics, also published by Duke University Press.
Summary
The corporatisation of education has served to expose the university as a business and one with a highly stratified division of labour. This work presents twelve essays that confront challenges facing the academic workforce in US colleges and universities and demonstrate how, like chalk lines, divisions between employees may be creatively redrawn.
