Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty

Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities offers significant insights into the ways academic labor has been reshaped through the market place, the reconfiguration of faculty power, and the reliance on contingent labor. This critical text provides a remarkable array of historical, economic, and political analyses centered on one institution while also developing parallels on how these issues play out in global contexts. The volume moves beyond an analysis of the ways in which contingent labor is used/abused to move to provide strategies for envisioning how pressure can be put on institutions to promote transformational change. -- Gerald Wood, Northern Arizona University

After reading this book, anyone involved in the academic enterprise will have a better grasp
of the teaching and scholarship plight, especially the contingent faculty, caused by both local
and global neoliberal restructuring conditions. The book is well-worth reading and has the
capacity to interest a global audience.

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the situation facing adjunct faculty in our society today. It represents a menacing and terrifying account of devastating patterned processes happening to otherwise highly valued and valuable faculty members who have demonstrated long-term dedication and commitment to their institutions of higher learning. -- Edythe E. Weeks, Webster University