Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education

Eric Fure-Slocum is a non-tenure track associate professor of history at St. Olaf College. He is the coeditor of Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies. Claire Goldstene taught as a contingent faculty member at numerous universities. She is the author of The Struggle for America’s Promise: Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital.

Acknowledgments Framing Contingency in Higher Education

Introduction  A Labor History of Contingent Faculty  Eric Fure-Slocum

1  From the Margins to the Center: Negotiating a New Academy  Gary Rhoades

Part I: The Making of a Contingent Faculty Majority

2  Framing Part I: R-E-S-P-E-C-T  Elizabeth Hohl

3  “Those Who Don’t Accept This Don’t Last Long”: Two Centuries of Cost Cutting and Laboring in the US Higher Education Industry  Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

4  Why Faculty Casualization? Its Origins and the Present Challenges of the Contingent Faculty Movement  Joe Berry and Helena Worthen

5  Women’s Work: A Feminist Rethinking of Contingent Labor in the Academy  Gwendolyn Alker

6  Contingency across Higher Education  Sue Doe and Steven Shulman

Part II: Contingency at Work and in the Workplace

7  Framing Part II: Multiple Contingencies  Aimee Loiselle

8  Social Dirt, Liminality, and the Adjunct Predicament  Claire Raymond

9  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Being Contingent and Female in STEM Fields  Diane Angell

10  Talking Back against Ableism, Ageism, and Contingency as a Latinx Instructor and First-Generation Scholar  Miguel Juárez

11  Graduate Student Labor, Contingency, and Power  Erin Hatton

12  Common Ground for the Common Good: What We Mean When We Say “Faculty Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions”  Maria C. Maisto

Part III: Challenging Precarity and Contingency in Higher Education

13  Framing Part III: “To Move Things Forward”  Anne Wiegard

14  So Many Roads, So Much at Stake: The Composition of Faculty Bargaining Units  William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald

15  Graduate Worker Organizing and the Challenges of Precarity in Higher Education  Jeff Schuhrke

16  From Community of Interest to Imagined Communities: Organizing Academic Labor in the Washington, DC Area  Anne McLeer

17  The “Army of Temps” in the House of Labor: How California’s Public Sector Labor Unions Struggle to Resist the De-Professionalization of College Teachers  Trevor Griffey

18  Casualization in the United Kingdom: Causes, Scale, and Resistance  Steven Parfitt

Paths Forward for Academic Labor and Higher Education

19  Building Labor Solidarity across Tenure Lines  Naomi R. Williams and Jiyoon Park

20  How the Isolation of Contingency Undermines the Public Good of Education  Claire Goldstene

Contributors

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