Abstract
In the voice of an informant who has recently moved from adjunct status to becoming a "real" professional on a tenure-track line, part II examines the ideology of professionalism in higher education. For adjuncts and temporary faculty members, laboring requires a constant management of their stigma, and, at the same time, a strategic disavowal of the vicissitudes of their own economic reality. For a tenured professoriate and a utilitarian administration, these laborers appear as a necessary blemish for the continuance of academic freedom and for the reduction of cost. Temporary laborers are made invisible within the university caste system by disappearing as "professional failures" according to the ideals of meritocracy that these same temporary laborers inculcate within their students. Performances of professionalism subtly demand that tenure-track faculty forget the structural conditions in which these temporary laborers work and naturalize success and failure as a matter of personal merit.
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