How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation

Uncovers the labor exploitation occurring in universities across the countryAs much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the v...

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Hauptverfasser: Bousquet, Marc (VerfasserIn), Nelson, Cary (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY New York University Press [2008]
Schriftenreihe:Cultural Front 3
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Zusammenfassung:Uncovers the labor exploitation occurring in universities across the countryAs much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the vast majority of faculty—really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy. Tenure-track positions are at an all-time low, with adjuncts and graduate students teaching the majority of courses. This super-exploited corps of disposable workers commonly earn fewer than
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Beschreibung:1 online resource 4 black and white illustrations
ISBN:9780814789926

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