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Hidden Academics : Contract Faculty in Canadian Universities.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (351 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442675735
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hidden AcademicsDDC classification:
  • 378.1/22
LOC classification:
  • LB2331.74.C2.R353 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'Changing Times and Changing Mission' -- Part One: The Contract Faculty -- 1 Permanent 'Temps' and Surplus Value -- 2 Hidden Academics -- 3 Invisible Women -- 4 Contemporaries and Classics: Segmented Interests -- Part Two: Fragmented Academe -- 5 Conflicts That Divide: Full-Timers versus Part-Timers -- 6 Interests That Diverge: Administrators versus Part-Timers -- Part Three: The Emergence of an Academic Underclass -- 7 'Sweated Labour' -- Epilogue: IvoryTower, Inc.? -- Appendix: Survey and Methodology -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Rajagopal examines the multiple ways contract faculty have emerged as an underclass in academia, with differences in status, compensation, career opportunities, and professional development.
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Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'Changing Times and Changing Mission' -- Part One: The Contract Faculty -- 1 Permanent 'Temps' and Surplus Value -- 2 Hidden Academics -- 3 Invisible Women -- 4 Contemporaries and Classics: Segmented Interests -- Part Two: Fragmented Academe -- 5 Conflicts That Divide: Full-Timers versus Part-Timers -- 6 Interests That Diverge: Administrators versus Part-Timers -- Part Three: The Emergence of an Academic Underclass -- 7 'Sweated Labour' -- Epilogue: IvoryTower, Inc.? -- Appendix: Survey and Methodology -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Rajagopal examines the multiple ways contract faculty have emerged as an underclass in academia, with differences in status, compensation, career opportunities, and professional development.

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