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Cogs in the classroom factory : the changing identity of academic labor

Title
Cogs in the classroom factory : the changing identity of academic labor / edited by Deborah M. Herman and Julie M. Schmid ; foreword by David Montgomery.
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Herman, Deborah M., 1963-
  • Schmid, Julie M., 1968-
Description
xxii, 208 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Universities and colleges > Employees > Labor unions > Organizing > United States
  • College teachers' unions > United States
  • College teachers > Tenure > United States
  • College teachers, Part-time > Salaries, etc. > United States
  • Graduate teaching assistants > Salaries, etc. > United States
  • Group identity > Political aspects > United States
  • College teachers, Part-time > Salaries, etc
  • College teachers > Tenure
  • College teachers' unions
  • Group identity > Political aspects
  • Universities and colleges > Employees > Labor unions > Organizing
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword : Preserving our independence, acting together / David Montgomery -- Introduction : The changing identity of academic labor / Julie M. Schmid and Deborah M. Herman -- Above and below : mapping social positions within the academy / Wesley Shumar and Jonathan T. Church -- Dueling identities and faculty unions : a Canadian case study / Mike Burke and Joanne Naiman -- In a leftover office in Chicago / Joe Berry -- More than academic : labor consciousness and the rise of UE Local 896-COGS / Susan Roth Breitzer -- Pyrrhic victory at UC Santa Barbara : the struggle for labor's new identity / Richard Sullivan -- Unfinished chapters : institutional alliances and changing identities in a graduate employee union / James Thompson -- Shutting down the academic factory : developing worker identity in graduate employee unions / Eric Dirnbach and Susan Chimonas -- Are you now or have you ever been an employee? Contesting graduate labor in the academy / William Vaughn -- The politics of constructing dissent : the rhetorical construction of faculty union membership / Darla S. Williams -- Afterword : Classroom, lab, factory floor : common labor struggles / Carl Rosen.
ISBN
  • 0897898141
  • 9780897898140
LCCN
2002068611
OCLC
  • ocm49705081
  • 49705081
  • SCSB-8903948
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library