College and university management continually attempt to slash labor costs. This situation provides an opportunity for labor organizing on campus. This chapter reviews events at Yale University and hints at the increasing weakness of even tenured faculty in controlling campus life. He points out that it is not the money paid to superstars in the Humanities that makes any significant difference. It is the hidden high salaries paid to MBAs, physicians and attorneys which run up the cost of academic labor at the high end of the scale.
Administrators often get undeserved superstar salaries.
One way these salaries are afforded is by hiring low paid adjuncts and part-timers. The first half of this edited volume contains articles about the situation at Yale University and the strikes of graduate students and clerical employees. The second half of the book examines academic unionism with special attention given to part-time faculty. Several of the chapter abstracts are found elsewhere in this bibliography. Graduate Education Is Losing Its Moral Base.