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"In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the gig economy: lack of job security and health care, professional disrespect, and poverty wages that require them to juggle multiple jobs. This collection draws on a wide range of perspectives to examine the realities of the contingent faculty system through the lens of labor history. Essayists investigate structural changes that have caused the use of contingent faculty to skyrocket and illuminate how precarity shapes day-to-day experiences in the academic workplace. Other essays delve into the ways contingent faculty engage in collective action and other means to resist austerity measures, improve their working conditions, and instigate reforms in higher education. By challenging contingency, this volume issues a clear call to reclaim higher education's public purpose. Interdisciplinary in approach and multifaceted in perspective, Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education surveys the adjunct system and its costs"--
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Acknowledgments
Framing Contingency in Higher Education Introduction A Labor History of Contingent Faculty Eric Fure-Slocum
1 From the Margins to the Center: Negotiating a New Academy Gary Rhoades
Part I: The Making of a Contingent Faculty Majority 2 Framing Part I: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Elizabeth Hohl
3 “Those Who Don’t Accept This Don’t Last Long”: Two Centuries of Cost Cutting and Laboring in the US Higher Education Industry Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
4 Why Faculty Casualization? Its Origins and the Present Challenges of the Contingent Faculty Movement Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
5 Women’s Work: A Feminist Rethinking of Contingent Labor in the Academy Gwendolyn Alker
6 Contingency across Higher Education Sue Doe and Steven Shulman
Part II: Contingency at Work and in the Workplace 7 Framing Part II: Multiple Contingencies Aimee Loiselle
8 Social Dirt, Liminality, and the Adjunct Predicament Claire Raymond
9 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Being Contingent and Female in STEM Fields Diane Angell
10 Talking Back against Ableism, Ageism, and Contingency as a Latinx Instructor and First-Generation Scholar Miguel Juárez
11 Graduate Student Labor, Contingency, and Power Erin Hatton
12 Common Ground for the Common Good: What We Mean When We Say “Faculty Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions” Maria C. Maisto
Part III: Challenging Precarity and Contingency in Higher Education 13 Framing Part III: “To Move Things Forward” Anne Wiegard
14 So Many Roads, So Much at Stake: The Composition of Faculty Bargaining Units William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald
15 Graduate Worker Organizing and the Challenges of Precarity in Higher Education Jeff Schuhrke
16 From Community of Interest to Imagined Communities: Organizing Academic Labor in the Washington, DC Area Anne McLeer
17 The “Army of Temps” in the House of Labor: How California’s Public Sector Labor Unions Struggle to Resist the De-Professionalization of College Teachers Trevor Griffey
18 Casualization in the United Kingdom: Causes, Scale, and Resistance Steven Parfitt
Paths Forward for Academic Labor and Higher Education 19 Building Labor Solidarity across Tenure Lines Naomi R. Williams and Jiyoon Park
20 How the Isolation of Contingency Undermines the Public Good of Education Claire Goldstene
Contributors
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Edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene
