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Informationen zum Autor Monika Krause is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at New York University. Mary Nolan is professor of history at New York University.Michael Palm is completing his PhD in the American Studies program at NYU. Andrew Ross is Professor of American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University and author of Fast Boat To China, Low Pay, High Profile, and No-Collar. Klappentext The essays in this book, written by people involved either involved in the strike (graduate students, faculty, organizers) or who are nationally recognized writers on academic labor, offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the current role of the university in public life, and how the pressure for universities to realign themselves along the lines of private corporations has broad implications for the future of higher education. Zusammenfassung Assesses the GSOC strike, using a variety of publications dealing with the teaching assistants. This book offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the role of the university in public life, and how the pressure for universities to realign themselves along the lines of private corporations has broad implications for higher education. Inhaltsverzeichnis The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace Edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm and Andrew Ross Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Corporate University?Ashley Dawson and Penny Lewis, NYC: Academic Labor Town? Ellen Schrecker, Academic Freedom in the Age of CasualizationMary Nolan, A Leadership University for the Twenty-first Century? Corporate Administration, Contingent labor, and the Erosion of Faculty RightsChristopher Newfield and Greg Grandin, Building a Statue of Smoke: The NYU Trustees, Finance Culture, and the Demotion of Intellectual LaborStephen Duncombe and Sarah Nash, ICE From the Ashes of FIRE: NYU and the Economy of Culture in New York CityAdam Green, The High Cost of Learning: Tuition, Educational Aid, and the New Economics of Prestige in Higher EducationMicki McGee, Blue Team, Gray Team: Some Varieties of the Contingent Faculty ExperiencePart II: GSOC StrikeUnions at NYU, 1971-2007Susan Valentine, The Administration Strikes Back: Union Busting at NYUSteve Fletcher, “Bad News for Academic Labor? Lessons in Media Strategy from the GSOC StrikeMaggie Clinton, Miabi Chatterji, Sherene Seikaly, Natasha Lightfoot, Naomi Schiller, “If Not Now, When? Lessons Learned from GSOC's 2005-6 Strike”Jeff Goodwin, faculty Andrew Cornell, Undergraduate Participation in Campus Labor Coalitions: Lessons from the NYU StrikeMatthew Osypowski (with Adam Graham Silverman), Operation Class-move Part III: Lessons for the FutureThe State of the Academic Labor Movement: A Roundtable with Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Bowen and Ed Ott, Moderated by Kitty KrupatAndrew Ross, Global UMonika Krause, and Michael Palm, Activists into organizers! How to Work with Your Colleagues and Build Power in Graduate School Gordon Lafer , Sorely Needed: A Corporate Campaign for the Corporate UniversityCary Nelson, Graduate Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor...
