Adjuncts Have a Hard Time: Unions at Rutgers Just Made It a Little Easier
Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Hank Kalet, a part-time lecturer in
Read moreEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Hank Kalet, a part-time lecturer in
Read moreTrade union density (alongside economic equality and working conditions) has fallen across all Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Read moreKim Kelly’s first “real” job—outside of dishwashing, retail sales, and touring with metal bands as a merchandise person—was at Vice
Read morePower and sexploitation at work.
Read moreHow student consumerism tyrannizes adjuncts.
Read moreOrganizing on the far side of the economy is gaining ground once thought impossible.
Read moreThe once hallowed and secure work life of American university faculty has for the past quarter century been in turmoil. Being a professor was once a respected, stable profession, but is now increasingly characterized by low pay, minimal benefits, and no job security.
Read moreOur obsession with the question of what sort of consciousness attaches itself most readily to the culture of consumption has paradoxically blinded us to the ways in which the ideal type of the American consumer has achieved a new level of uncontested sovereignty in the political rhetoric of our market culture.
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