The adjunct is not even hired to a three-year contract. One of the things you have now is semester by semester hiring of adjuncts. Adjuncts are hired as the needs of a given department or a given program demand them. So they are always in a position of extreme insecurity. That's a form of flex capital, and that's becoming more and more common.
Adjuncts are a flexible, mobile work force that can be shifted around.
There are more and more adjuncts who teach three, four, or even five courses spread out among different universities and colleges. They have no sense of place. The analogy is to a building trades worker who may work this week at this building site and next week at another building site. The only difference is that in this country, because of the extreme mobility and insecurity of the building trades, workers have organized a strong guild to protect their benefits and their wages, so they have some control over the market. And they are treating you like shit, so fight as if you were just like any other worker who needed to get better wages and working conditions.' 22.