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Author: Marc Bousquet Edition: Publisher: NYU Press Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0814799752 Price: You Save: 16%
How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural Front)
As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there.How the University Works review. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the vast majority of faculty—really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy. Tenure-track positions are at an all-time low, with adjuncts and graduate students teaching the majority of courses. This super-exploited corps of disposable workers commonly earn fewer than ,000 annually, without benefits, teaching as many as eight classes per year. Even undergraduates are being exploited as a low-cost, disposable workforceRead full reviews of How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation.
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How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural Front) - Marc Bousquet
Review "This is an extraordinarily important book, buttressed with a tremendous amount of convincing detail."-Regional Labor Review , "Bousquet serves up a stinging indictment of those universities that exploit their students from the moment they set foot on campus. . . . [He] reveals the dystopia that the contemporary university has become." -The Minnesota Review , òÀÜBousquet takes an uncompromising look at the way colleges employ those who teach - and how many professors have done nothing as tenured positions have been replaced with adjunct slots.òÀÝ -Inside Higher Ed, òÀÜMarc Bous
Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation by Marc Bousquet Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Marc Bousquet is the most trenchant theorist of the current academic labor situation, and How the University Works is the best study of academic labor conditions in the US since the 1970s. It is thoroughly and creatively researched, theoretically bold, often mercifully frank, and frequently poi
Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the vast majority of faculty—really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy. Tenure-track positions are at an all-time low, with adjuncts and graduate students teaching the majority of courses. This super-exploited corps of disposable workers commonly earn fewer than ,000 annually, without benefits, teaching as many as eight classes per year. Even undergraduates are being exploited as a low-cost, disposable workforce.
Marc Bousquet, a major figure in the academic labor movement, exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education—a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages. Assessing the costs of higher education's corporatization on faculty and students at every level, How the University Works is urgent reading for anyone interested in the fate of the university.
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