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Power despite precarity : strategies for the contingent faculty movement in higher education / Joe Berry and Helena Worthen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berry, Joe, author.
- Worthen, Helena, author.
- Series:
- Wildcat (Pluto Press)
- Wildcat
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--Faculty.
- Universities and colleges.
- Education, Higher--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- United States.
- Educational sociology--United States.
- Educational sociology.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Education and state--United States.
- Education and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part I The Case of the Lecturers in the CSU System
- 1 Student Strikes and Union Battles p. 11
- 2 Layoffs and Hard Years for Organizing p. 25
- 3 Revolution in the Union p. 34
- 4 "They have nothing to teach us" p. 49
- Part II Higher Ed Was Never a Level Terrain of Struggle
- 5 Four Transitions and How Casualization Served Managers p. 69
- Part III What We Want and What the CFA Got
- 6 Blue Sky #1 Organizing and Economics p. 89
- 7 Blue Sky #2 Job Security, Academic Freedom and the Common Good p. 99
- 8 Beyond the Sausage-making: A Close Look at the CFA-CSU Contract p. 113
- Part IV The Difficulty of Thinking Strategically
- 9 Strategies Emerging From Practice p. 133
- 10 The Contingent Faculty Movement as a Social Movement p. 155
- Part V Seven Troublesome Questions
- 11 What Gets People Moving? p. 163
- 12 Who is the Enemy? Who are Our Allies? p. 172
- 13 What is "Professionalism" for Us? p. 181
- 14 How Does It Feel? p. 188
- 15 Is this legal? p. 198
- 16 What About Leftists? p. 210
- 17 How Do We Deal With Union Politics? p. 220
- Part VI Using the Power We Have
- 18 Hopes and Dangers p. 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-280) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780745345567
- 0745345565
- Publisher Number:
- 40030736487
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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