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Reclaiming the ivory tower : organizing adjuncts to change higher education
- Author
- Berry, Joe.
- Title
- Reclaiming the ivory tower : organizing adjuncts to change higher education / Joe Berry.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Monthly Review Press, c2005.
- Description
- xiv, 162 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005024451.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-147) and index.
- Contents
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- Contingent faculty today: who we are
- Corporatization: higher education in the service of capital
- A few statistics
- Good work but a bad living
- How our class position has changed
- Other big losers: students and society
- Contingent faculty organizing
- Material conditions and power relations
- Consciousness: how our colleagues think
- Our full-time tenured and tenure track colleagues
- Administrators' perspectives and vulnerabilities
- Who are the activists
- The message: respect
- Competitive unionism: good, bad, or indifferent for contingent faculty
- The politics of lists
- Appointment to union staff: promotion or demotion and for whom?
- Reverse engineering a good union: participant action research
- Guide for a national strategy
- The Chicago experience
- Map of the Metro Chicago workforce
- Organizers' voices
- Lessons from interviews
- A metro organizing strategy
- Research
- A contingent faculty center : virtual and actual
- Services
- Assistance for organizing
- Regional publicity
- Direct demands and advocacy
- Alliances, coalitions, and solidarity
- Alternatives in sponsorship and organizational structure
- Getting down to work : an organizer's toolbox
- Even two make a committee
- Building a committee: finding people and developing issues
- Building relationships: taking care of each other
- Acting like a union
- Dealing with divisions
- Communications: from office whispers to the Internet
- Analyzing the opposition: power, politics, and strategic planning
- Some institutional advantages we have
- We are not alone : finding allies.
- Subject headings
- College teachers, Part-time--United States. Universities and colleges--United States--Faculty. College teachers' unions--United States. Universities and colleges--Employees--Labor unions--Organizing--United States.
- ISBN
- 1583671293 (pbk.) 1583671307 (cloth)