A Dirty Deal: Social Dirt and the Adjunct Predicament
Although I’ve taught at the same university continuously since 2007, I’m still considered “temporary” faculty: a kind of intellectual migrant, shifting every year.
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Labor History
Teaching Blog
New Teaching Labor’s Story Guide: Triumph of the Paraprofessionals, August 22, 1970
Nick Juravich’s new TLS guide is an op-ed written by civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin on the signing of the first union contract.
- by Nick Juravich
- May 8, 2018
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Supporting UK University Lecturers on Strike
Steven Parfitt, who spoke at LAWCHA’s Seattle conference, asks LAWCHA members to support the ongoing lecturers’ strike in the UK by contributing to.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- March 12, 2018
Activism
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Teaching Blog
Lecturers on Strike
University lecturers in the UK will walk off tomorrow in the largest-ever strike called in British higher education. Eric Fure-Slocumwp.stolaf.edu/history/people/fure-slocum-eric/
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- February 26, 2018
Global Affairs Articles
NAFTA’s Long Shadow: Where immigration and economic policy meet
Congressional Democrats and Republicans regularly play the blame game about why there’s no immigration reform. But each party fails to point the finger.
- by Sarah McNamara
- February 12, 2018
Global Affairs Articles
Thai Unions Coordinate, Collaborate for Success
After working several years at an auto parts factory outside Bangkok, Prasit Prasopsuk compared conditions at his workplace with those of a friend.
- by Tula Connell
- January 26, 2018
Contingent Faculty Committee
Everything Passes, Everything Changes: Unionization and Collective Bargaining in Higher Education
Collective bargaining and unionization in higher education has a long history. In 1936, Teachers Union Local 5 President Charles J. Hendley criticized a.
- by William Herbert
- January 8, 2018
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Building Job Security into Community College Faculty Work: Experiences in British Columbia
In the Canadian province of British Columbia, aspects of how unionized faculty in community colleges have attempted to deal with faculty contingency since.
- by Frank Cosco
- November 6, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Dave Jamieson, “The Ivy League Has An Unexpected Friend In Donald Trump”
Their graduate students are trying to unionize. The president may have already stopped them. Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 31, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Contingency and The Runaway Academic Apprentice: How Craft Union History Can Inform Attempts to Reverse the Decline of Faculty Tenure
The rise of contingent or precarious contracts within academic markets is the latest manifestation of the regulatory failures that bedevil delicately balanced apprenticeship.
- by Dan Jacoby
- October 30, 2017