Chalk Lines: The Politics of Work in the Managed UniversityRandy Martin The increasing corporatization of education has served to expose the university as a business--and one with a highly stratified division of labor. In Chalk Lines editor Randy Martin presents twelve essays that confront current challenges facing the academic workforce in U.S. colleges and universities and demonstrate how, like chalk lines, divisions between employees may be creatively redrawn. While tracing the socioeconomic conditions that have led to the present labor situation on campuses, the contributors consider such topics as the political implications of managerialism and the conceptual status of academic labor. They examine the trend toward restructuring and downsizing, the particular plight of the adjunct professor, the growing emphasis on vocational training in the classroom, and union organizing among university faculty, staff, and graduate students. Placing such issues within the context of the history of labor movements as well as governmental initiatives to train a workforce capable of competing in the global economy, Chalk Lines explores how universities have attempted to remake themselves in the image of the corporate sector. Originally published as an issue of Social Text, this expanded volume, which includes four new essays, offers a broad view of academic labor in the United States. With its important, timely contribution to debates concerning the future of higher education, Chalk Lines will interest a wide array of academics, administrators, policymakers, and others invested in the state--and fate--of academia.
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Contents
Academic Capitalism Managed Professionals and SupplySide Higher | 33 |
Recapturing Academic Business Christopher Newfield | 69 |
Education for Public Life David Montgomery | 147 |
Doing Academic Work Stefano Harney and Frederick Moten | 154 |
Transformation of Higher Education Vincent Tirelli | 181 |
The Crisis Facing Adult Literacy | 225 |
Faculty Students and Political Engagement Jeremy Smith | 249 |
William Vaughn | 264 |
Contributors | 311 |
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