An edition of Reclaiming the ivory tower
(2005)
Reclaiming the ivory tower
organizing adjuncts to change higher education
by Joe Berry
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College teachers, Part-time, College teachers' unions, Employees, Labor unions, Faculty, Organizing, Universities and colleges, Education, higher, united states, Chargés de cours, Universités, Corps enseignants, Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur), Syndicats, Personnel, SyndicalisationPlaces
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Reclaiming the ivory tower: organizing adjuncts to change higher education
2005, Monthly Review Press
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Table of Contents
Contingent faculty today: who we are
Casualization as corporatization
A few statistics
Good work but a bad living
How our class position has changed
Contingent life and conditions
Other losers: students and society
Contingent faculty organizing
Material conditions and power relations
Consciousness : how our colleagues think
Our full-time tenured and tenure track colleagues (fttt)
Administrators' perspectives and vulnerabilities
Who are the activists?
The message: respect
Competitive unionism, pro and con
The politics of lists
Going on staff: promotion or demotion?
Reverse engineering a good union: participant action research (par)
Guides for a national strategy
The Chicago experience
Map of the Metro Chicago workforce
Organizers' voices
"How and why I first got involved"
Campaign beginnings: sparks and issues
"How we chose a union"
"What we did right"
"What didn't work"
"How the employer responded"
Organizing committees and who leads them
Relations with union staff
Negotiating a first contract
Contrasting viewpoints
Building a real union
Future strategies, visions and goals
Lessons from interviews
A metro organizing strategy
Research
A "contingent faculty center" : virtual and actual
Services : professional and personal
Assistance for organizing
Regional publicity
Direct demands and advocacy
Alliances, coalitions and external solidarity
Alternatives in sponsorship and organizational structure
Calendar
Budget
Getting down to work : an organizer's toolbox
Even two are a committee
Your right to organize
Building a committee
Taking care of each other
Acting like a union
Dealing with divisions
Communications-from office whispers to the internet
Analyzing the enemy
We have some advantages
We are not alone : finding allies on campus and off.
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