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Did your professor make you uncomfortable? There’s a law for that!

Lisa Phillips, Indiana State University, analyzes Indiana’s new law, SEA 202. The law, due to go into effect in June calls DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)-centered teaching, research, scholarship, and...

Lessons from Academic Labor Activism

This is the third post that introduces the important themes and issues highlighted in the new edited collection Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education. -ed When Claire Goldstene...

Following the Footsteps of Jack O’Dell

On the frosty morning of January 13, 2024, the student union building at the University of Washington (UW) was buzzing with the joy of reunion as longtime friends, students, and...

Social Dirt and Precarious Academia Before the Law

Claire Raymond weighs in with a searing commentary on her experiences as an adjunct, contingent laborer in academia. This is the second blog post that introduces the important themes and...

Resistance to the Casualization of Academic Labor, A View From the UK

This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, which is freely available for...

Paul Shackel on his new book, The Ruined Anthracite

This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, which is freely available for...