Steal this university : the rise of the corporate university and the academic labor movement / / edited by Benjamin Johnson, Patrick Kavanagh, and Kevin Mattson

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.88/11/378120973
• Soggetto topico: Universities and colleges - Employees - Labor unions - Organizing - United States; College teachers' unions - United States; Education, Higher - Economic aspects - United States; Universities and colleges - Employees - United States - Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: JohnsonBenjamin <1972-> KavanaghPatrick <1972-> MattsonKevin <1966->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: Not Your Parents' University or Labor Movement Any Longer; The Rise of the Corporate University; None of Your Business: The Rise of the University of Phoenix and For-Profit Education; and Why It Will Fail Us All; Digital Diploma Mills; Inefficient Efficiency: A Critique of Merit Pay; The Drain-O of Higher Education: Casual Labor and University Teaching; Laboring Within; How I Became a Worker; The Art of Work in the Age of the Adjunct; Blacklisted and Blue: On Theory and Practice at Yale ; Tenure Denied: Union Busting and Anti-Intellectualism in the Corporate UniversityOrganizing; The Campaign for Union Rights at NYU Lisa Jessup; Democracy Is an Endless Organizing Drive: Learning from the Failure and Future of Graduate Student Organizing at the University of Minnesota; Moving River Barges: Labor Activism and Academic Organizations; Social Movement Unionism and Adjunct Faculty Organizing in Boston; Renewing Academic Unions and Democracy at the Same Time: The Case
• Sommario/riassunto: This book details the problem with coroprate management practices in higher education, the contributors combine analysis with case studies to illuminate the ways in which academic labor battles are being fought at the national, state and local
• Titolo autorizzato: Steal this university
• ISBN: 1-135-95202-7; 1-280-07618-6; 0-203-47501-1; 0-203-46549-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451367303321
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