The university against itself : the NYU strike and the future of the academic workplace / edited by Monika Krause ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krause, Monika, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York University.

Strikes and lockouts--Graduate teaching assistants--New York (State)--New York.

Strikes and lockouts.

New York University--Faculty.

Strikes and lockouts--Graduate teaching assistants.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

vi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I Corporate University?

New York: Academic Labor Town? / Ashley Dawson, Penny Lewis 15

Academic Freedom in the Age of Casualization / Ellen Schrecker 30

A Leadership University for the Twenty-First Century? Corporate Administration, Contingent Labor, and the Erosion of Faculty Rights / Mary Nolan 43

Building a Statue of Smoke: Finance Culture and the NYU Trustees / Christopher Newfield, Greg Grandin 57

ICE from the Ashes of FIRE: NYU and the Economy of Culture in New York City / Stephen Duncombe, Sarah Nash 71

The High Cost of Learning: Tuition, Educational Aid, and the New Economics of Prestige in Higher Education / Adam Green 83

Blue Team, Gray Team: Some Varieties of the Contingent Faculty Experience / Micki McGee 97

Part II GSOC Strike

Unions at NYU, 1971-2007 115

The Administration Strikes Back: Union Busting at NYU / Susan Valentine 123

Bad News for Academic Labor? Lessons in Media Strategy from the GSOC Strike / Steve Fletcher 137

If Not Now, When? The GSOC Strike, 2005-2006 / Miabi Chatterji, Maggie Clinton, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherene Seikaly, Naomi Schiller 149

Which Side Are We On? NYU's Full-Time Faculty and the GSOC Strike / Jeff Goodwin 162

Undergraduate Participation in Campus Labor Coalitions: Lessons from the NYU Strike / Andrew Cornell 174

Village Hospitality / Matthew Osypowski 186

Part III Lessons for the Future

The State of the Academic Labor Movement: A Roundtable with Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Bowen, and Ed Ott / Kitty Krupat (moderator) 199

Global U / Andrew Ross 211

Activists into Organizers! How to Work with Your Colleagues and Build Power in Graduate School / Monika Krause, Michael Palm 224

Sorely Needed: A Corporate Campaign for the Corporate University / Gordon Lafer 236

Graduate-Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor / Cary Nelson 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781592137404

9781592137411

1592137407

1592137415

OCLC:

144768859

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