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The lives of campus custodians : insights into corporatization and civic disengagement in the academy / Peter Magolda ; foreword by Jeffrey F. Milem.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magolda, Peter Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School custodians--United States--Social conditions.
- School custodians.
- College facilities--Maintenance and repair--Social aspects--United States.
- College facilities.
- College personnel management--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- College personnel management.
- Work environment--United States.
- Work environment.
- College facilities--Maintenance and repair.
- Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 258 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Sterling, Virginia : Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2016.
- Summary:
- This vivid study uncovers the lives and working conditions of a group of individuals who are usually rendered invisible on college campuses: the custodians who daily clean the offices, residence halls, bathrooms, and public spaces. In doing so it reveals the academy's equally invisible practices that frequently contradict its espoused values of inclusion and equity and its profession that those on the margins are important members of the campus community. This study poses fundamental questions about the moral implications of the corporatization of higher education and its impact on the academy's lowest-paid and most vulnerable employees. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Research Study, Research Sites, and Researcher
- 1 You Must Have Done Something Wrong 3
- The Right Kind of Wrong 3
- What's Wrong? 6
- Writing Wrongs 8
- Note 13
- 2 Research Site Insights 14
- Cleaning Insights 14
- Research Sites 18
- Historical and Political Insights 26
- Insights Unseen 28
- 3 Coming Clean: Ethnographic Origins and Milieus 30
- The Subjective "I" and "Eye" 32
- Lessons Learned 37
- Part 2 The Custodial Life: Family and Fear
- 4 Pathways to a Cleaner['s] Life 41
- Career Immobility 41
- Upward Mobility 42
- Downward Mobility 46
- The Allure of Custodial Work on College Campuses 55
- Left Behind and Losing Ground 61
- 5 The Custodian Life 63
- Mr. Clean 63
- An All-Purpose Cleaner 71
- The Grim Sweeper 75
- Grime Scenes 81
- 6 The Supervising Life 85
- The Clean Team 85
- The Buffer 91
- Worker-Manager Strife 95
- 7 Fear the Worst 98
- Primal Fear 98
- Fear Factors 101
- Caste-Away Fears 108
- 8 Family Matters 113
- Family Feuds 113
- The CU Family 113
- The HU Family 121
- Family Therapy 127
- Part 3 Corporate Managerialism and Civic Disengagement
- 9 The Corporate Creep 133
- Business as [Un]Usual 133
- How's Business? Not So Good 135
- Getting Down to Business 138
- A Corporate Managerialism Business Model 139
- Going out of Business 150
- 10 Soiled Educational Aspirations and Civic Disengagement 155
- Doing More Harm Than Good 155
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 158
- Too Bad 167
- Part 4 Education and Possibilities
- 11 The Courage to be (In Trouble) 173
- Urine Trouble 173
- Troublemakers 174
- Trouble in Paradise 183
- Notes 191
- 12 A Dog's Life 192
- Having a Dogs Chance 195
- Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks 196
- Dog-ma 210
- Epilogue 213
- Compton University Staff Updates 214
- Harrison University Staff Updates 215
- Miami University Staff Updates 216.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Magolda, Peter Mark, author. Lives of campus custodians.
- ISBN:
- 9781620364604
- 1620364603
- 9781620364598
- 162036459X
- OCLC:
- 933719791
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