Organizing Professionals : Academic Employees Negotiating a New Academy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhoades, Gary.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Amidst unprecedented levels of union organizing in higher education, Gary Rhoades combines the perspectives of a scholar and labor movement activist and leader to provide a comprehensive analysis of organizing campaigns and collective bargaining agreements for faculty (contingent and tenure-track), graduate students, and postdoc employees. Academic employees are organizing and negotiating for respect for workers, their work, and the public value of higher education. Rhoades analyzes how academic employees are shifting the imbalance of power between labor and management, reducing the internal professional stratification between segments of the academic workforce, and intersecting workplace issues with broader issues of equality, public value, and social justice, and in the process organizing and negotiating for a new, more progressive academy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1 Now Is the Time

2 A Critical Juncture and a Distinctive Dynamism

Part 1 From the Margins to the Center: Contingent Academic Employees Organizing and Negotiating a New Academy

3 Bread and Roses, and a Labor-Based Conception of Quality: A New Faculty Majority Organizing a New Academy

4 Negotiating Bread and Roses and Labor-Based Quality into Part-Time-Only and Combined Bargaining Unit Contracts

5 More than Would-Be Apprentices: Graduate Student and Postdoc Employees Organizing and Negotiating amid New Forms of Contingency in an Aging, Changing Academy

Part 2 Faculty Negotiating Retrenchment and Technology amid Management’s Austerity Agenda

6 Challenging Management’s Austerity Practices: Organizing amid and Negotiating Furloughs

7 Negotiating Management’s Austerity Practices:s Retrenchment for Financial Exigency and Other Reasons in the Contracts

8 Protections and Possibilities in Negotiating a Progressive Academy amid New Circuits of Production

9 Organizing and Negotiating for Respect and Public Purpose: Toward a New Progressive Normal

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-9788-4425-5

1-9788-4426-3

OCLC:

1499929402