Power despite precarity : strategies for the contingent faculty movement in higher education / Joe Berry, Helena Worthen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Joe, author.

Worthen, Helena, author.

Series:

Wildcat

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Pluto Press, [2021]

Summary:

A key organizing tool for casualized university faculty from longtime movement activists.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Photographs

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

Part I: The Case of the Lecturers in the CSU System

1. Student Strikes and Union Battles

2. Layoffs and Hard Years for Organizing

3. Revolution in the Union

4. "They Have Nothing to Teach Us"

Part II: Higher Ed Was Never a Level Terrain of Struggle

5. Four Transitions and How Casualization Served Managers

Part III: What We Want and What the CFA Got

6. Blue Sky #1: Organizing and Economics

Blue Sky #2: Job Security, Academic Freedom and the Common Good

8. Beyond the Sausage-making: A Close Look at the CFA-CSU Contract

Part IV: The Difficulty of Thinking Strategically

9. Strategies Emerging from Practice

10. The Contingent Faculty Movement as a Social Movement

Part V: Seven Troublesome Questions

11. What Gets People Moving?

12. Who is the Enemy? Who are Our Allies?

13. What is "Professionalism" for Us?

14. How Does It Feel?

15. "Is this legal?"

16. What About Leftists?

17. How Do We Deal With Union Politics?

Part VI: Using the Power We Have

18. Hopes and Dangers

Essential Terms

John Hess: A Life in the Movement

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780745345567

0745345565

9780745345543

0745345549

OCLC:

1263024400