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Author Bousquet, Marc, 1963-

Title How the university works : higher education and the low-wage nation / Marc Bousquet ; foreword by Cary Nelson
Published New York : New York University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description xviii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cultural front
Cultural front (Series)
Contents Foreword : resistance is not futile / Cary Nelson -- Introduction : your problem is my problem -- The informal economy of the "information university" -- The faculty organize, but management enjoys solidarity -- Students are already workers -- Composition as management science -- The rhetoric of "job market" and the reality of the academic labor system -- Appendix A: Yeshiva University 444 US 672, "Justice Brennan, dissenting" -- Appendix B: Brown University 1-RC-21368, "Liebman and Walsh, dissenting."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index
Subject College teachers -- Salaries, etc. -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Employees -- Salaries, etc.
LC no. 2007029790
ISBN 9780814799741 cloth alkaline paper
0814799744 cloth alkaline paper
9780814799758 paperback alkaline paper
0814799752 paperback alkaline paper