The Lives of Campus Custodians : Insights into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy / / Peter M. Magolda ; foreword by Jeffrey F. Milem

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798429603321
• Autore: Magolda Peter Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Routledge, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-00-344791-0; 1-000-97805-2; 1-003-44791-0; 1-62036-461-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Disciplina: 371.68
• Soggetti: School custodians - United States - Social conditions; College facilities - United States - Maintenance and repair - Social aspects; College personnel management - Moral and ethical aspects - United States; Work environment - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface: "I See You" -- Part One: The Research Study, Research Sites, and Researcher -- Chapter 1: You Must Have Done Something Wrong -- The Right Kind of Wrong -- What's Wrong? -- Writing Wrongs -- Note -- Chapter 2: Research Site Insights -- Cleaning Insights -- Research Sites -- Historical and Political Insights -- Insights Unseen -- Chapter 3: Coming Clean: Ethnographic Origins and Milieus -- The Subjective "I" and "Eye" -- Lessons Learned -- Part Two: The Custodial Life: Family and Fear -- Chapter 4: Pathways to a Cleaner['s] Life -- Career Immobility -- Upward Mobility -- Downward Mobility -- The Allure of Custodial Work on College Campuses -- Left Behind and Losing Ground -- Chapter 5: The Custodian Life -- Mr. Clean -- An All-Purpose ; Cleaner -- The Grim Sweeper -- Grime Scenes -- Chapter 6: The Supervising Life -- The Clean Team -- The Buffer -- Worker-Manager Strife -- Chapter 7: Fear the Worst -- Primal Fear -- Fear Factors -- Caste-Away Fears -- Chapter 8: Family Matters -- Family Feuds -- The CU Family -- The HU Family -- Family Therapy -- Part Three: Corporate Managerialism and Civic Disengagement -- Chapter 9: The Corporate Creep -- Business as [Un]Usual -- How's Business? Not So Good -- Getting Down to Business -- A Corporate Managerialism Business Model -- Going out of Business -- Chapter 10: Soiled Educational Aspirations and Civic Disengagement -- Doing More Harm Than Good -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Too Bad -- Part Four: Education and Possibilities -- Chapter 11: The Courage to be (in Trouble) -- Urine Trouble -- Troublemakers -- Trouble in Paradise -- Notes -- Chapter 12: A Dog's Life -- Having a Dog's Chance -- Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks -- Dog-ma -- Epilogue -- Compton University Staff Updates.; Harrison University Staff Updates -- Miami University Staff Updates -- Appendix A: Research Methodologies and Methods -- Philosophical Foundations -- Influences on Fieldwork Methods -- Writing -- Goodness Criteria -- Appendix B: Unsanitized Tales from the Field -- Omissions Accomplished -- Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.