Equality for Contingent Faculty : Overcoming the Two-Tier System.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Case Studies of Progressive Change -- 1. Organizing for Equality within the Two-Tier System: The Experience of the California Faculty Association -- 2. The Case for Instructor Tenure: Solving Contingency and Protecting Academic Freedom in Colorado -- 3. Online Teaching and the Deskilling of Academic Labor in Canada -- II. The Two-Tier System in Academe -- 4. Organizing the New Faculty Majority: The Struggle to Achieve Equality for Contingent Faculty, Revive Our Unions, and Democratize Higher Education -- 5. The Academic Labor System of Faculty Apartheid -- 6. The Question of Academic Unions: Community (or Conflict) of Interest? -- 7. Do College Teachers Have to Be Scholars? -- III. Roadmaps for Achieving Equality -- 8. The New Abolition Movement -- 9. The Vancouver Model of Equality for College Faculty Employment -- Selected Bibliography on the Contingent Faculty Movement -- Appendix: Trends in Instructional Staff Employment Status -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.

Successful strategies for enhancing the lives of adjuncts and other contingent faculty.

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