Contingency, exploitation, and solidarity : labor and action in English composition / edited by Seth Kahn, William B. Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahn, Seth, editor.

Lalicker, William B., editor.

Lynch-Biniek, Amy, editor.

Series:

Perspectives on writing (Fort Collins, Colo.)

Perspectives on writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers, Part-time--United States.

College teachers, Part-time.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English language.

Universities and colleges--United States--Faculty.

Universities and colleges.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

Universities and colleges--Faculty.

Physical Description:

xx, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : The WAC Clearinghouse ; Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2017]

Summary:

"Composition scholars and activists have long documented the exploitative conditions of adjunct faculty. While documentation matters, continued data-collecting too often precludes movement towards equitable treatment. This collection highlights actions and describes efforts that have led toward improved adjunct working conditions in English departments"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword : the new faculty majority in writing programs : organizing for change / Eileen E. Schell

Introduction : paths toward solidarity / Seth Kahn, William B. Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek

Silent subversion, quiet competence, and patient persistence / Carol Lind and Joan Mullin

Despair is not a strategy / Anna K. Nardo and Barbara Heifferon

An apologia and a way forward : in defense of the lecturer line in writing programs / Mark McBeth and Tim McCormack

Real faculty but not : the full-time, non-tenure-track position as contingent labor / Richard Colby and Rebekah Shultz Colby

Head to head with EDX? : toward a new rhetoric for academic labor / Michael Murphy

Contingency, solidarity, and community building : principles for converting contingent to tenure track / William B. Lalicker and Amy Lynch-Biniek

The other invisible hand : adjunct labor and economies of the writing center / Dani Nier-Weber

The risks of contingent writing center directorships / Dawn Fels

The uncertain future of past success : memory narrative, and the dynamics of institutional change / Rolf Norgaard

Non-tenure-track activism : genre appropriation in program reporting / Chris Blankenship and Justin M. Jory

Traveling on the assessment loop : the role of contingent labor in curriculum development / Jacob Babb and Courtney Adams Wooten

Adjuncts foster change : improving adjunct working conditions by forming an associate faculty coalition (AFC) / Tracy Donhardt and Sarah Layden

Building our own bridges : a case study in contingent faculty self-advocacy / Lacey Wootton and Glenn Moomau

What works and what counts : valuing the affective in non-tenure-track advocacy / Sue Doe, Maria Maisto, and Janelle Adsit

Hitting the wall : identity and engagement at a two-year college / Desirée Holter, Amanda Martin and Jeffrey Klausman

The problem of speaking for adjuncts / Seth Kahn

The rhetoric of excellence and the erasure of graduate labor / Allison Laubach Wright

Brutal(ist) meditations: space and labor-movement in a writing program / Michelle LaFrance and Anicca Cox.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781607327653

1607327651

OCLC:

1001340415

Publisher Number:

99975323555