Reclaiming the ivory tower
Subtitle: organizing adjuncts to change higher education
By: by Joe Berry.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: College teachers, Part-time -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty; College teachers' unions -- United States; Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States
Table of contents: title: Contingent faculty today: who we are; title: Casualization as corporatization; title: A few statistics; title: Good work but a bad living; title: How our class position has changed; title: Contingent life and conditions; title: Other losers: students and society; title: Contingent faculty organizing; title: Material conditions and power relations; title: Consciousness : how our colleagues think; title: Our full-time tenured and tenure track colleagues (fttt); title: Administrators' perspectives and vulnerabilities; title: Who are the activists?; title: The message: respect; title: Competitive unionism, pro and con; title: The politics of lists; title: Going on staff: promotion or demotion?; title: Reverse engineering a good union: participant action research (par); title: Guides for a national strategy; title: The Chicago experience; title: Map of the Metro Chicago workforce; title: Organizers' voices; title: "How and why I first got involved"; title: Campaign beginnings: sparks and issues; title: "How we chose a union"; title: "What we did right"; title: "What didn't work"; title: "How the employer responded"; title: Organizing committees and who leads them; title: Relations with union staff; title: Negotiating a first contract; title: Contrasting viewpoints; title: Building a real union; title: Future strategies, visions and goals; title: Lessons from interviews; title: A metro organizing strategy; title: Research; title: A "contingent faculty center" : virtual and actual; title: Services : professional and personal; title: Assistance for organizing; title: Regional publicity; title: Direct demands and advocacy; title: Alliances, coalitions and external solidarity; title: Alternatives in sponsorship and organizational structure; title: Calendar; title: Budget; title: Getting down to work : an organizer's toolbox; title: Even two are a committee; title: Your right to organize; title: Building a committee; title: Taking care of each other; title: Acting like a union; title: Dealing with divisions; title: Communications-from office whispers to the internet; title: Analyzing the enemy; title: We have some advantages; title: We are not alone : finding allies on campus and off.