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Power Despite Precarity

Joe Berry | Helena Worthen
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Adjunct
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California State University
casualised labour
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collective bargaining
Collective bargaining in higher education
collective power
College and university labor unions
colleges
contingent
Contingent faculty
contract negotiations
Contracts for contingent faculty
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faculty
Faculty union organizing
gig
Higher education
Higher education unions
Higher education workforce
History of education
Ivory tower
Labor
Labor in higher education
labor organizing
neoliberalism
non-tenure-track
organising handbook
precarious labor
temporary
tenure track
trade unions
universities
workplace struggle
zero-hours contracts

Product details

  • ISBN 9780745345529
  • Weight: 324g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Aug 2021
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty ‘contingents’ who work without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher education.

Power Despite Precarity is part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four historical periods that led to major transitions in the worklives of faculty of this sector. They then take a deep dive into the 30-year-long struggle by California State University lecturers to negotiate what is recognized as the best contract for contingents in the US.

The authors ask: what is the role of universities in society? Whose interests should they serve? What are the necessary conditions for the exercise of academic freedom?  Providing strategic insight for activists at every organizing level, they also tackle 'troublesome questions’ around legality, union politics, academic freedom and how to recognize friends (and foes) in the struggle.
About Helena Worthen | Joe Berry
Joe Berry is a founder of the Chicago Coalition of Academic Labor and a long-time leader of the international COCAL and New Faculty Majority. He has served on many national contingent faculty committees. He is the author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education (Monthly Review Press, 2005). Helena Worthen is a novelist, union activist and retired contingent faculty worker. Her book, What Did You Learn at Work Today? The Forbidden Lessons of Labor Education (Hardball, 2013) won the 2014 Best Book award from the United Association for Labor Education.

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