How the university works : higher education and the low-wage nation /
Marc Bousquet ; foreword by Cary Nelson.
- New York : New York University Press, c2008.
- xviii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Cultural front .
- Cultural front (Series) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index.
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."
College teachers--Salaries, etc.--United States. Universities and colleges--Employees--Salaries, etc.--United States. Profesores universitarios --Salarios --Estados Unidos Universidades--Empleados --Estados Unidos