How the University Works : : Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation / / Cary Nelson, Marc Bousquet.
Uncovers the labor exploitation occurring in universities across the countryAs much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the v...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Front ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 4 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Informal Economy of the “Information University”
- 3. The Faculty Organize, But Management Enjoys Solidarity
- 4. Students Are Already Workers
- 5. Composition as Management Science
- 6. The Rhetoric of “Job Market” and the Reality of the Academic Labor System
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Authors