His research is centered on how the labor movement has organized and failed to organize workers to become members, and, second, exploring how the precariously employed college adjuncts under contingent contracts experience the commodification of their labor. This last project is focused on the processes that adjunct faculty who make a living by teaching adopt in their search for employment. Rather than examining how colleges and universities incorporate adjuncts, what is missing is the 'constant commodification' of adjuncts' labor as they construct a life and career. One of the strategies that is emerging for adjuncts is to limit their commodification by organizing union contracts.