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Bibliography of Resources on the Academic Workforce and Contingent Labor in the Profession
This wiki is an ongoing project initiated by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession. Formed in 2009, the Committee is charged with considering a range of issues affecting teachers of modern languages and literatures who hold non-tenure-track appointments in institutions of higher education. These issues include but are not limited to salary and benefits, academic freedom, due process rights, and professional development. For committee membership and a brief overview, please see http://www.mla.org/committee_contingent
We maintain this bibliography in order to collect and share information about the academic workforce, and to provide resources that will be useful to individuals and departments for the purposes of advocacy. Most importantly, we invite visitors to add relevant sources, following the conventions of the MLA Style Manual.
MLA Academic Workforce Advocacy Kit
The Academic Workforce Advocacy Kit brings together a set of reports and guidelines on faculty workload and staffing norms developed by the association since the 1990s. [1]
Events
Sessions Sponsored by the CLIP Committee at the 2012 MLA Convention. 419. Good Practices in Hiring, Developing, and Reviewing Contingent Faculty Members January 7, 2012 8:30–9:45 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton
Roundtable on Professional Employment Practices January 5, 2012 3:30-4:45 p.m.
North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing--Emphasis on Labor Conditions. (February 2012) http://wpacouncil.org/node/3368
Articles
"Adjunct Breakthrough (II). Inside Higher Education. (2 December 2009). http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/02/adjunct
Dobbie, David and Ian Robinson. "Reorganizing Higher Education in Canada and the United States: The Erosion of Tenure and the Unionization of Contingent Faculty." Labour Studies Journal. 33/2 (2008): 117-140. http://lsj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/2/117
Jaschik, Scott. "Principles for 'One Faculty.'" Inside Higher Education. (8 Feb 2010). http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/08/caw
---. "Adjuncts and Retention Rates.'" Inside Higher Ed. (21 June 2010). http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/adjuncts. Web.
Books
Baldwin, Roger G., and Jay L. Chronister. Teaching without Tenure: Policies and Practices for a New Era. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002.
Berry, Joe. Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005.
Bérubé, Michael. Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies. New York: NYU Press, 1997.
Bérubé, Michael & Cary Nelson. Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Bousquet, Marc. How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-wage Nation. New York: New York University Press. 2008.
Cross, John G. and Edie N. Goldberg. Off-Track Profs. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
Donoghue, Frank. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
Dubson, Mark. Ghosts in the Classroom: Stories of College Adjunct Faculty--and the Price We All Pay. Boston: Camel's Back Books. 2001.
Gappa, Judith., & David Leslie. The Invisible Faculty: Improving the Status of Part-timers in Higher Education. The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 1993.
Herman, Deborah M., & Julie Schmid. Cogs in the Classroom Factory: The Changing Identity of Academic Labor. Westport, Conn: Praeger. 2003
Johnson, Benjamin, Patrick Kavanagh & Kevin Mattson, Eds. Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Krause, Monika et al. The University against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Martin, Randy, Ed. Chalk Lines: The Politics of Work in the Managed University. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Nelson, Cary & Stephen Watt. Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Nelson, Cary & Stephen Watt. Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Nelson, Cary. No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom. New York: NYU Press, 2009.
Nelson, Cary. Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Schell, Eileen E. & Patricia L Stock. Moving a Mountain : Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education. Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, 2001.
Washburn, Jennifer. University Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education. Basic Books, 2005.
Fiction
Kudera, Alex. Fight for Your Long Day. Atticus P, 2010.
Bibliographies
Pankin, Robert and Carlas Weiss. Part-time Faculty in Higher Education: A Selected Annotated Bibliography http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=sociology_fac .
Other resources are linked at http://newfacultymajority.info/national/index.php?option=com_weblinks&view=categories&Itemid=150 .
Organization websites
American Federation of Teachers. FACE campaign. http://www.aftface.org
California Faculty Association. Union representing all faculty in the California State University system. http://www.calfac.org
California Part-time Faculty Association. Grassroots activist organization for part-time faculty in the California Community Colleges. http://www.cpfa.org
Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor. Informal coalition of activist groups and unions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. http://wwww.cocalinternational.org. See also chicagococal.org, cocal-ca.org, other local coalitions.
Coalition on the Academic Workforce. http://www.academicworkforce.org.
Committee on Part-time, Adjunct, or Contingent Labor. NOTE: this is a committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and not an organization per se. We include this link to provide a connection to another organization in the English Studies/Language Studies umbra that is concerned with labor issues. http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/ptaclabor
New Faculty Majority: The National Coalition for Adjunct and Contingent Equity. A newer, individual membership-based coalition. http://www.newfacultymajority.org.
University Council-AFT. Union representing all non-tenure-track faculty in the University of California system. http://www.ucaft.org.
Online Journals and Periodicals
Adjunct Nation. http://www.adjunctnation.com
Chronicle of Higher Education. http://www.chronicle.com
Higher Ed Morning. http://www.higheredmorning.com
Inside Higher Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com
Blogs
http://equalpayforequalwork.blogspot.com
More to come
