Power Despite Precarity Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education

A key organizing tool for casualized higher education faculty from longtime movement activists

About the author

Joe Berry is a founder of the Chicago Coalition of Academic Labor and a long-time leader of the international COCAL and New Faculty Majority. He has served on many national contingent faculty committees. He is the author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education (Monthly Review Press, 2005).
Helena Worthen is a novelist, union activist and retired contingent faculty worker. Her book, What Did You Learn at Work Today? The Forbidden Lessons of Labor Education (Hardball, 2013) won the 2014 Best Book award from the United Association for Labor Education.

Summary

A key organizing tool for casualized higher education faculty from longtime movement activists

Product details

• Authors: Helena Worthen, Joe Berry, Berry Joe, Joe Worthen Berry
• Publisher: Pluto
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.08.2021
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)
• EAN: 9780745345529
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4552-9
• Pages: 320
• Series: Wildcat
• Subjects: USA, Gig, SELF-HELP / General, EDUCATION / General, Labor, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, LAW / Labor & Employment, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Neoliberalism, Trade Unions, History of Education, tenure track, higher education, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Teaching staff, universities, Sociology: work & labour, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Advice on education, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Colleges, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Industrial relations & trade unions law, Employment and labour law: procedure, dispute resolution, Faculty, Collective bargaining, Labor organizing, Temporary, adjunct, contract negotiations, contingent, Ivory Tower, Contingent faculty, collective power, Precarious labor, zero-hours contracts, non-tenure-track, Higher education unions, California State University, Higher education workforce, Labor in higher education, Contracts for contingent faculty, Collective bargaining in higher education, Faculty union organizing, organising handbook, casualised labour, workplace struggle, College and university labor unions