Overview

Amidst unprecedented levels of union organizing in higher education, Gary Rhoades combines the perspectives of a scholar and labor movement activist and leader to provide a comprehensive analysis of organizing campaigns and collective bargaining agreements for faculty (contingent and tenure-track), graduate students, and postdoc employees. Academic employees are organizing and negotiating for respect for workers, their work, and the public value of higher education. Rhoades analyzes how academic employees are shifting the imbalance of power between labor and management, reducing the internal professional stratification between segments of the academic workforce, and intersecting workplace issues with broader issues of equality, public value, and social justice, and in the process organizing and negotiating for a new, more progressive academy.

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Author:   Gary Rhoades
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9781978844247

ISBN 10:   1978844247
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 April 2025
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Now is the Time Chapter 2: A Critical Juncture and Distinctive Dynamism   Section 1: From the Margins to the Center: Contingent Academic Employees Organizing and Negotiating a New Academy Chapter 3: Bread and Roses, and a Labor-Based Conception of Quality: A New Faculty Majority Organizing a New Academy Chapter 4: Embedding Bread and Roses and Labor-Based Quality in Part-time Only Bargaining Units Chapter 5: Graduate Student and Postdoc Employees: More Than Would-Be Apprentice Organizing and Negotiating New Contingency in an Old Academy   Section 2: Faculty Negotiating Retrenchment and Technology Amidst Management's Austerity Agenda Chapter 6: Challenging Management’s Austerity Practices: Organizing Amidst and Negotiating Furloughs Chapter 7: Negotiating Management’s Austerity Practices: Retrenchment for Financial Exigency and Other Reasons in the Contracts Chapter 8: Protections and Possibilities in Negotiating a Progressive Academy Amidst New Circuits of Production Chapter 9: Organizing and Negotiating for Respect and Public Purpose: Toward a New Progressive Normal Acknowledgments Bibliography Index  

Reviews

""Gary Rhoades has far exceeded his classic achievement in Managed Professionals. He provides a consistent vision of a possible progressive future for higher education that both serves the needs of the working-class majority and of the workforce that makes the institutions function—in contrast to the neoliberal austerity future currently being projected by those in power. This book will serve for many years as a reference for contract comparison as well as a current analysis and call to action for all of us with a stake in the future of higher education as a public good."" -- Joe Berry * author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education *

Author Information

GARY RHOADES is a professor of higher education at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He served as the president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2004 and was the general secretary of the American Association of University Professors from 2009 to 2011. He is the author of Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor (1998) and coauthor with Sheila Slaughter of American Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education (2009).

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