Professors in the Gig Economy : Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America /

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"One of the most significant trends in American higher education over the last decade has been the shift in faculty employment from tenured to contingent. Now upwards of 75% of faculty jobs are non-tenure track; two decades ago that figure was 25%. One of the results of this shift--along with t...

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Otros Autores: Tolley, Kimberley (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Universities and colleges > Faculty > Employment.
Gig economy.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Économie à la demande > États-Unis.
Universites > Corps enseignant > Travail > États-Unis.
Gig economy > United States.
Universities and colleges > Faculty > Employment > United States.
College teachers, Part-time > Labor unions > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: THE CHANGING ACADEMIC WORKFORCE: Influences and Outcomes; 1 From Golden Era to Gig Economy: Changing Contexts for Academic Labor in America; 2 Understanding the Need for Unions: Contingent Faculty Working Conditions and the Relationship to Student Learning; 3 A Long History of Activism and Organizing: Contingent Faculty, Graduate Students, and Unionization; 4 Union Organizing and the Law: Contingent Faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants; Part II: UNIONIZATION IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
  • 5 A Just Employment Approach to Adjunct Unionization: The Georgetown Model6 Unionizing Adjunct and Tenure-Track Faculty at Notre Dame de Namur University; 7 Unions, Shared Governance, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities; 8 Forming a Union: The Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition, Local 6546 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; 9 Wall to Wall: Industrial Unionism at the City University of New York, 1972â#x80;#x93;2017; 10 California State University, East Bay: Alignment of Contingent and Tenure-Track Faculty Interests and Goals.
  • CONCLUSION: Reflections on the Possibilities and Limitations of Collective BargainingAppendix; Contributors; Index.

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