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Gypsy scholars, migrant teachers and the global academic proletariat : adjunct labour in higher education /

Once adjunct teaching was considered a temporary solution to faculty shortages in institutions of higher education. Now it is a permanent and indispensable feature of such institutions, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. This book takes stock of this new development, concentrating primarily on the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Teeuwen, Rudolphus, Hantke, Steffen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Disappointed Hope
  • Adjunct Teachers in the Two-Tier Academic Labour Market; Part I Adjunct Teaching in the USA; Shouting Down the Avalanche; Uppity Subalterns and Brazen Compositionists: Confronting Labour Abuses with Theory, Rhetoric, and the Potent Personal; Adjuncts with Power: Making Policy in University Governance; Academia as a Gift Economy: Adjunct Labour and False Consciousness; Franchising the Disenfranchised: Improving the Lot of Visiting Faculty and Adjuncts.