Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.
Contents:
Foreword: contingency at the crossroads / Guy Senese -- Introduction : the casualization of academic labor & faculty agency / Ishmael I. Munene -- Prometheus redefined : theorizing & contextualizing contingent faculty in universities / Ishmael I. Munene -- The metro strategy : a workforce-appropriate, geography-based approach to organizing contingent faculty / Joe Berry and Helena Worthen -- Vulnerable, but not silent : unpacking discourses of fear surrounding NTT faculty / Nora Timmerman -- Notes from the field : mobilizing non-tenure track faculty at the University of Arizona / Sean Rys, Joel Smith, and Kristin Little -- Reclaiming academic labor in a democratic state : mediating the neoliberal university assault on the professoriate / Tiffany Kraft -- The theft of adjunct faculty labor time : theorizing exchange value and resistance from a Marxist perspective / Philippa Winkler -- Democracy, shared governance, and academic freedom for all faculty / Brian A. Stone and Sandra J. Stone -- Non-tenured academics and the dilemma of the academic profession in Kenyan universities / Ibrahim O. Ogachi and Daniel N. Sifuna -- Tenure and non-tenure track systems in Turkish academia : current status and future prospects / Nihan Demirkasımoǧlu -- The beginnings of resistance among part-time instructors in South Korea / Sungok R. Park and Choi Soyoung -- Disposable academics : neoliberalism, anti-intellectualism and the rise of contingent faculty in Canadian universities / Njoki Nathani Wane and Zuhra Abawi -- Afterthought : unchaining Prometheus and decaualizing academic labor -- Ishmael I. Munene.
Summary:
"This book presents an overview of the context and work conditions of contingent faculty in higher education. It addresses questions related to the ways in which faculty theorize about contingent academic labor, and under what conditions they are able to unite, organize, and constitute an opposition to management" -- Provided by publisher.
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