Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education

Eric Fure-Slocum is a non-tenure track associate professor of history at St. Olaf College. He is the coeditor of Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies. Claire Goldstene taught as a contingent faculty member at numerous universities. She is the author of The Struggle for America's Promise: Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital.

Acknowledgments Framing Contingency in Higher Education Introduction A Labor History of Contingent Faculty Eric Fure-Slocum 1 From the Margins to the Center: Negotiating a New Academy Gary Rhoades Part I: The Making of a Contingent Faculty Majority 2 Framing Part I: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Elizabeth Hohl 3 "Those Who Don't Accept This Don't Last Long": Two Centuries of Cost Cutting and Laboring in the US Higher Education Industry Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 4 Why Faculty Casualization? Its Origins and the Present Challenges of the Contingent Faculty Movement Joe Berry and Helena Worthen 5 Women's Work: A Feminist Rethinking of Contingent Labor in the Academy Gwendolyn Alker 6 Contingency across Higher Education Sue Doe and Steven Shulman Part II: Contingency at Work and in the Workplace 7 Framing Part II: Multiple Contingencies Aimee Loiselle 8 Social Dirt, Liminality, and the Adjunct Predicament Claire Raymond 9 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Being Contingent and Female in STEM Fields Diane Angell 10 Talking Back against Ableism, Ageism, and Contingency as a Latinx Instructor and First-Generation Scholar Miguel Juarez 11 Graduate Student Labor, Contingency, and Power Erin Hatton 12 Common Ground for the Common Good: What We Mean When We Say "Faculty Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions" Maria C. Maisto Part III: Challenging Precarity and Contingency in Higher Education 13 Framing Part III: "To Move Things Forward" Anne Wiegard 14 So Many Roads, So Much at Stake: The Composition of Faculty Bargaining Units William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald 15 Graduate Worker Organizing and the Challenges of Precarity in Higher Education Jeff Schuhrke 16 From Community of Interest to Imagined Communities: Organizing Academic Labor in the Washington, DC Area Anne McLeer 17 The "Army of Temps" in the House of Labor: How California's Public Sector Labor Unions Struggle to Resist the De-Professionalization of College Teachers Trevor Griffey 18 Casualization in the United Kingdom: Causes, Scale, and Resistance Steven Parfitt Paths Forward for Academic Labor and Higher Education 19 Building Labor Solidarity across Tenure Lines Naomi R. Williams and Jiyoon Park 20 How the Isolation of Contingency Undermines the Public Good of Education Claire Goldstene Contributors Index

"A book that we have long awaited and needed. Nothing else offers such a broad sweep of perspectives and such a deep historical appreciation of the struggles of contingent academic labor. Anyone interested in the future of higher education, the future of work and workers, or the future of our democracy should read this important book."--Joseph A. McCartin, coeditor of Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU "A book that we have long awaited and needed. Nothing else offers such a broad sweep of perspectives and such a deep historical appreciation of the struggles of contingent academic labor. Anyone interested in the future of higher education, the future of work and workers, or the future of our democracy should read this important book."--Joseph A. McCartin, coeditor of Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU