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Author Johnson, Benjamin Herber

Title Steal This University : the Rise of the Corporate University and an Academic Labor
Published London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: Not Your Parents' University or Labor Movement Any Longer; The Rise of the Corporate University; None of Your Business: The Rise of the University of Phoenix and For-Profit Education; and Why It Will Fail Us All; Digital Diploma Mills; Inefficient Efficiency: A Critique of Merit Pay; The Drain-O of Higher Education: Casual Labor and University Teaching; Laboring Within; How I Became a Worker; The Art of Work in the Age of the Adjunct; Blacklisted and Blue: On Theory and Practice at Yale
Summary This book details the problem with coroprate management practices in higher education, the contributors combine analysis with case studies to illuminate the ways in which academic labor battles are being fought at the national, state and local
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Subject Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States
College teachers' unions -- United States
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Employees -- Social conditions
College teachers' unions.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects.
Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Organizing.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Mattson, Kevin
Kavanagh, Patrick
ISBN 9780203465493
0203465490