Framing Contingency in Higher Education

Introduction A Labor History of Contingent Faculty Eric Fure-Slocum

1 From the Margins to the Center: Negotiating a New Academy Gary Rhoades

Part I: The Making of a Contingent Faculty Majority

2 Framing Part I: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Elizabeth Hohl

3 “Those Who Don’t Accept This Don’t Last Long”: Two Centuries of Cost Cutting and Laboring in the US Higher Education Industry Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

4 Why Faculty Casualization? Its Origins and the Present Challenges of the Contingent Faculty Movement Joe Berry and Helena Worthen

5 Women’s Work: A Feminist Rethinking of Contingent Labor in the Academy Gwendolyn Alker

6 Contingency across Higher Education Sue Doe and Steven Shulman

Part II: Contingency at Work and in the Workplace

7 Framing Part II: Multiple Contingencies Aimee Loiselle

8 Social Dirt, Liminality, and the Adjunct Predicament Claire Raymond

9 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Being Contingent and Female in STEM Fields Diane Angell

10 Talking Back against Ableism, Ageism, and Contingency as a Latinx Instructor and First-Generation Scholar Miguel Juárez

11 Graduate Student Labor, Contingency, and Power Erin Hatton

12 Common Ground for the Common Good: What We Mean When We Say “Faculty Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions” Maria C. Maisto

Part III: Challenging Precarity and Contingency in Higher Education

13 Framing Part III: “To Move Things Forward” Anne Wiegard

14 So Many Roads, So Much at Stake: The Composition of Faculty Bargaining Units William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald

15 Graduate Worker Organizing and the Challenges of Precarity in Higher Education Jeff Schuhrke

16 From Community of Interest to Imagined Communities: Organizing Academic Labor in the Washington, DC Area Anne McLeer

17 The “Army of Temps” in the House of Labor: How California’s Public Sector Labor Unions Struggle to Resist the De-Professionalization of College Teachers Trevor Griffey

18 Casualization in the United Kingdom: Causes, Scale, and Resistance Steven Parfitt

Paths Forward for Academic Labor and Higher Education

19 Building Labor Solidarity across Tenure Lines Naomi R. Williams and Jiyoon Park

20 How the Isolation of Contingency Undermines the Public Good of Education Claire Goldstene

Contributors

Index