Cogs in the classroom factory : the changing identity of academic labor / edited by Deborah M. Herman and Julie M. Schmid ; foreword by David Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herman, Deborah M., 1963-

Schmid, Julie M., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Employees--Labor unions--United States--Organizing.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--Employees--Labor unions.

Group identity--Political aspects.

Group identity.

Graduate teaching assistants.

College teachers, Part-time--Salaries, etc.

College teachers, Part-time.

College teachers' unions.

United States.

College teachers' unions--United States.

College teachers--Tenure--United States.

College teachers.

College teachers--Tenure.

College teachers, Part-time--Salaries, etc--United States.

Graduate teaching assistants--Salaries, etc--United States.

Group identity--Political aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 208 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Summary:

Introduces the reader to the academic union movement and describes the conflicts and challenges inherent in this "professional unionism" among full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and graduate-employees on campuses across the United States and Canada.

Contents:

Foreword: Preserving Our Independence, Acting Together / David Montgomery xiii

Introduction: The Changing Identity of Academic Labor / Julie M. Schmid, Deborah M. Herman 1

Part I. A Widening Divide: Faculty and Others 19

1. Above and Below: Mapping Social Positions within the Academy / Wesley Shumar, Jonathan T. Church 21

2. Dueling Identities and Faculty Unions: A Canadian Case Study / Mike Burke, Joanne Naiman 41

3. In a Leftover Office in Chicago / Joe Berry 59

Part II. The Next Generation: Charting New Waters 69

4. More than Academic: Labor Consciousness and the Rise of UE Local 896-COGS / Susan Roth Breitzer 71

5. Pyrrhic Victory at UC Santa Barbara: The Struggle for Labor's New Identity / Richard Sullivan 91

6. Unfinished Chapters: Institutional Alliances and Changing Identities in a Graduate Employee Union / James Thompson 117

Part III. New Tactics, Old Battlegrounds 137

7. Shutting Down the Academic Factory: Developing Worker Identity in Graduate Employee Unions / Eric Dirnbach, Susan Chimonas 139

8. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been an Employee?: Contesting Graduate Labor in the Academy / William Vaughn 153

9. The Politics of Constructing Dissent: The Rhetorical Construction of Faculty Union Membership / Darla S. Williams 171

Afterword: Classroom, Lab, Factory Floor: Common Labor Struggles / Carl Rosen 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0897898141

OCLC:

49705081