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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

Author: Marc Bousquet
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
Series: Cultural front (Series)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees - including faculty - really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy. This title exposes the  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Marc Bousquet
ISBN: 9780814799741 0814799744 9780814799758 0814799752
OCLC Number: 156975305
Description: xviii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword : resistance is not futile / Cary Nelson --
Introduction : your problem is my problem --
The informal economy of the "information university" --
The faculty organize, but management enjoys solidarity --
Students are already workers --
Composition as management science --
The rhetoric of "job market" and the reality of the academic labor system --
Appendix A: Yeshiva University 444 US 672, "Justice Brennan, dissenting" --
Appendix B: Brown University 1-RC-21368, "Liebman and Walsh, dissenting."
Series Title: Cultural front (Series)
Responsibility: Marc Bousquet ; foreword by Cary Nelson.
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"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 U.S. since the 1970s. It is Read more...

 
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