| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Reforming higher education: innovation and the public good
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Reforming higher education.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-243) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Putting the gig academy in context : neoliberalism and academic capitalism -- Employees in the Gig academy : insecure, isolated, exploited, and devalued -- Disintegrating relationships and the demise of community -- How employment practices negatively impact student learning and outcomes -- The growth of unions and new broad-based organizing strategies -- Whither the struggle : future trends, policies, and actions. |
| Summary |
"Over the past two decades, higher education employment has undergone a radical transformation with faculty becoming contingent, staff being outsourced, and postdocs and graduate students becoming a larger share of the workforce. For example, the faculty has shifted from one composed mostly of tenure-track, full-time employees to one made up of contingent, part-time teachers. Non-tenure-track instructors now make up 70 percent of college faculty. Their pay for teaching eight courses averages $22,400 a year--less than the annual salary of most fast-food workers. In The Gig Academy, Adrianna Kezar, Tom DePaola, and Daniel T. Scott assess the impact of this disturbing workforce development. Providing an overarching framework that takes the concept of the gig economy and applies it to the university workforce, this book scrutinizes labor restructuring across both academic and nonacademic spheres. By synthesizing these employment trends, the book reveals the magnitude of the problem for individual workers across all institutional types and job categories while illustrating the damaging effects of these changes on student outcomes, campus community, and institutional effectiveness. A pointed critique of contemporary neoliberalism, the book also includes an analysis of the growing divide between employees and administrators. The authors conclude by examining the strengthening state of unionization among university workers. Advocating a collectivist, action-oriented vision for reversing the tide of exploitation, Kezar, DePaola, and Scott urge readers to use the book as a tool to interrogate the state of working relations on their own campuses and fight for a system that is run democratically for the benefit of all. Ultimately, The Gig Academy is a call to arms, one that encourages non-tenure-track faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students, and administrative and tenure-track allies to unite in a common struggle against the neoliberal Gig Academy."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
College teachers' unions -- United States.
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College teachers' unions. |
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United States. |
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College teachers, Part-time -- United States.
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College teachers, Part-time. |
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College teachers -- Employment -- United States.
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College teachers -- Employment. |
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College teachers -- Professional relationships -- United States.
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College teachers. |
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty.
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Universities and colleges. |
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration.
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Administration. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
DePaola, Tom, 1987- author.
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Scott, Daniel T., 1988- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kezar, Adrianna J. Gig academy. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019] 9781421432700 (DLC) 2019001229 (OCoLC)1096233145 |
| ISBN |
9781421432717 (electronic book) |
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1421432714 (electronic book) |
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9781421432700 (hardcover) |
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1421432706 (hardcover) |
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