Power Despite Precarity

Photographs

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

PART I - THE CASE OF THE LECTURERS IN THE CSU SYSTEM

1. Student Strikes and Union Battles

2. Layoffs and Hard Years for Organizing

3. Revolution in the Union

4. "They have nothing to teach us"

PART II - HIGHER ED WAS NEVER A LEVEL TERRAIN OF STRUGGLE

5. Four Transitions and How Casualization Served Managers

PART III - WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT THE CFA GOT

6. Blue Sky #1 Organizing and Economics

7. Blue Sky #2 Job Security, Academic Freedom and the Common Good

8. Beyond the Sausage-making: A Close Look at the CFA-CSU Contract

PART IV - THE DIFFICULTY OF THINKING STRATEGICALLY

9. Strategies Emerging From Practice

10. The Contingent Faculty Movement as a Social Movement

PART V - SEVEN TROUBLESOME QUESTIONS

11. What Gets People Moving?

12. Who is the Enemy? Who are Our Allies?

13. What is "Professionalism" for Us?

14. How Does It Feel?

15. Is this legal?

16. What About Leftists?

17. How Do We Deal With Union Politics?

PART VI - USING THE POWER WE HAVE

18. Hopes and Dangers

Essential Terms

John Hess: A Life in the Movement

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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• Pessoal docente
• Ensino medio e superior
• Sociologia: trabalho e mão de obra
• Relações industriais e sindicatos da lei do comércio
• Sindicatos
• História do século 21: de c 2000 -
• Aconselhamento sobre educação
• História social e cultural

Higher education; California State University; contract negotiations; faculty; neoliberalism; organising handbook; universities; colleges; collective bargaining; workplace struggle; Ivory tower; tenure track; zero-hours contracts; casualised labour; trade unions; collective power; Labor; contingent; precarious labor; non-tenure-track; gig; temporary; Adjunct; Collective bargaining in higher education; Contracts for contingent faculty; College and university labor unions; Labor in higher education; Higher education workforce; History of education; Faculty union organizing; Higher education unions; Contingent faculty; labor organizing