How the University Works
Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
As 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 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 $16,000 annually, without benefits, teaching as many as eight classes per year. Even undergraduates are being exploited as a low-cost, disposable…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-8992-6
- EAN: 9780814789926
- Produktnummer: 22583240
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 281 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'095 KB
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