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Student Consumerism vs. Contingent Faculty

February 2018May 2018 Paula Finn adjunct organizing, adjuncts, faculty, student

The neoliberal trend that has corporatized higher education and made of it a brave new world of contingent faculty labor

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Contingent Faculty of the World Unite! Organizing to Resist the Corporatization of Higher Education

April 2016June 2018 Malini Cadambi Daniel adjunct, collective bargaining, contingent workers, faculty, fair labor standards act, higher education, low wage, trade unions, Winter 2016, worker centers

The 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.