Graduate students at work : exploited scholars of neoliberal higher ed / edited by Tessa Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Tessa, editor.

Series:

Rethinking careers, rethinking academia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graduate teaching assistants--United States.

Graduate teaching assistants.

Graduate students--Employment--United States.

Graduate students.

Universities and colleges--United States--Graduate work.

Universities and colleges.

Graduate students--Employment.

Universities and colleges--Graduate work.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2023]

Summary:

"Essential Workers, Exploited Labor highlights the expertise and experiences of graduate students to demonstrate what graduate study entails, what it makes possible, and what it constrains. Moving between full-length research articles and short personal essays, the collection illustrates graduate students' experiences, organizing tactics, and strategies for staying in or moving out of the academy. The contributors illustrate the significant expertise that graduate students are asked to enact in their jobs as teachers, researchers, and administrators, even as they are kept in poverty wages for the decade or so it takes to move through a master's and doctoral program into the promised land of a tenure-track job. At the same time, these essays draw connections between the labor conditions of graduate student workers and other workers navigating poverty wages, labor migration, limited benefits, and harassment and discrimination around lines of race, gender, ability, and citizenship-the most important connection perhaps being the possibility for organization and unionization to fight for better working conditions for all"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I LABOR AT THE MARGINS

Interlude 1 "Levels to This Sh*t": Layers of Graduate Student Labor / Khadeidra Billingsley

1. "I Have to Go Wherever There's an Opportunity": Graduate Students' Experiences of Placelessness and Writing / Zoe McDonald

Interlude 2 Invisible Marginalization in Academia / Samah Elbelazi

Interlude 3 Invisible Labors and Entangled Emergence / Andrew Hollinger

2. "Like I'm `The Man'": Graduate Student Administrators' Experiences / Megan Titus

Interlude 4 The Ethics of Progressive Internships / Meagan Gacke-Reed

3. "It's Dangerous to Go Alone": Explorations of Unbalanced Labor and Mentorship in a Blended Learning Doctoral Program / Megan Mize

pt. II THE LABOR OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Graduate students at work

ISBN:

9780700634071

070063407X

9780700635245

0700635246

OCLC:

1335763923