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How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed in Higher Education
Despite recent organizing gains among some contingent faculty members, the adjunctification of higher education has left hundreds of thousands of college and university teachers with low pay, spotty benefit coverage, and little job security. As former adjuncts Joe Berry and Helena Worthen report in their new book,
The rapid, pandemic related expansion of on-line education threatens to further erode employment conditions for the two-thirds to three-fourths of all faculty members who are contingent. (For an analysis of OLE and its impact, see Robert Ovetz’s “Conscious Linkage: The Proletarianization of Academic Labor in the Algorithmic University,”
Heads up! Chins down! Resisting the New Bipartisan Neoliberal Project in Education newpol.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newpol.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.