Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement

Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty MovementHigher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty contingents who work without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher education. Power Despite Precarity is part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four

Rachel Cromidas

people of color

and behind these trends is a little-discussed problem: the decades-long decline in worker power

and drawing upon his years of experience making union concepts accessible to the general reader

289 pages -  hardcover

But it’s going to take more than picket signs and marches in front of stores and corporate headquarters to win real union contracts with real protections for these workers

progressive discipline) to manage their staff effectively without acting like the bosses unions fight

union politics

At a time of great uncertainty for American workers and their unions

This is a very helpful guide for how to run or participate in a union meeting -- not just the formal procedures

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Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor