Serfs of Academe
Pursuing a life in academia has become more like trying to become a professional athlete or a star musician than a doctor, a lawyer, or even a typical service sector worker.
Adjunct
by Geoff Cebula
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
by Joe Berry
The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change
by Raewyn Connell
The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission
by Herb Childress
Where Historians Work: An Interactive Database of History PhD Career Outcomes
American Historical Association. Available at www.historians.org/wherehistorianswork
Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America
edited by Kim Tolley
The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
by Daniel Markovits
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
by Thomas Frank
Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
by Suzanne Mettler
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution
by Wendy Brown
The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
by Christopher Newfield
March 12, 2020 issue
