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Unionization in the academy : visions and realities / Judith Wagner DeCew.
Van Pelt Library LB2335.865.U6 D43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeCew, Judith Wagner.
- Series:
- Issues in academic ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teachers' unions--United States.
- College teachers' unions.
- Universities and colleges--Employees--Labor unions--United States--Organizing.
- Universities and colleges.
- Universities and colleges--Employees--Labor unions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Faculty Unions: Background and History 11
- 2 Arguments for and against Faculty Unions, and the Problem of Legitimacy 31
- 3 The Yeshiva Decision and Unions at Private Institutions 45
- 4 Major Effects of Faculty Unionization 57
- 5 Unionization among Part-Time Faculty 75
- 6 Graduate Student Unions 89
- 7 Unionization for Undergraduate RAs: One Case Study 111
- Section I Faculty Unions and Academic Politics
- Professors, Unions, and American Higher Education: Concluding Observations / Everett Carll Ladd Jr., Seymour Martin Lipset 127
- Academic Politics: Faculty Unions and the Academic Perception / William R. Brown 139
- Restoring Sanity to an Academic World Gone Mad / James F. Carlin 167
- Are Unions Good for Professors? / Stanley Aronowitz 173
- Section II Faculty Unions and the Legal Landscape
- Collective Bargaining and the Professoriate: What the Law Says / Deborah C. Malamud 187
- The Yeshiva Faculty Union: Tales Told Out of School / Manfred Weidhorn 199
- Section III Unionization and Part-Time Faculty
- To Many Adjunct Professors, Academic Freedom Is a Myth: As the Ranks of Part-Timers Swell, They Lament How Easily Colleges Can Dump Them / Alison Schneider 209
- The AAUP Organizes Part-Time Faculty: An Experiment in Community Responsibility Suggests that Part- and Full-Time Faculty Can Enrich One Another's Professional Lives / Richard Moser 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847696707
- 0847696715
- OCLC:
- 50669606
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