Archives

LaborOnline

The Irony of Essential Work: COVID-19’s Impact on Campus Workers

This is the fourth in a series of essays on “Higher Ed Wall-to Wall in Tennessee,” which will continue for the rest of this week. This series of posts highlights...

“Everything you do as a grad student is a gamble”: The graduate student employee COVID-19 experience

This is the third in a series of essays on “Higher Ed Wall-to Wall in Tennessee,” which will continue for the rest of this week. This series of posts highlights...

“Who can plan their life just one year in advance?”: Non Tenure-Track Labor in Times of Crisis

This is the second in a series of essays on “Higher Ed Wall-to Wall in Tennessee,” which will continue for the rest of this week. This series of posts highlights...

Essential or Expendable? Working in Higher Education during COVID-19

This is the first in a series of essays on “Higher Ed Wall-to Wall in Tennessee,” which will continue for the rest of this week. This series of posts highlights...

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda on Her New Book, Migrant Citizenship

Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues with Verónica Martínez-Matsuda. The University of Pennsylvania Press published her Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and...

Lecturer Organizing and COVID-19

The public health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the problems with America’s two-tier system of college teaching. Because most non-tenure track instructors make low wages, those...