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Power Despite Precarity Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education.
A key organizing tool for casualized university faculty from longtime movement activists.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Wildcat.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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