Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement

Abstract

Introduction Section 1. The Rise of the Corporate University 1. None of Your Business: The Rise of the University of Phoenix and For-profit Education- and Why It Will Fail Us All A. M. Cox 2. Digital Diploma Mills D. Noble 3. Inefficient efficiency: A Critique of Merit Pay 4. The Drain-o of Higher Education: Casual Labor and University Teaching B. Johnson Section 2. Laboring Within 1. How I Became a Worker K. Mattson 2. The Art of Work in the Age of Adjunct A. Moore 3. Blacklisted and Blue: On Theory and Practice at Yale R. Corey 4. Tenure Denied: Union-Busting and Anti-Intellectualism in the Corporate University J. Westheimer 3. Organizing 1. The Campaign for Union Rights at NYU I. Jessup 2. Democracy is an Endless Organising Drive: Learning from the Failure and Future of Graduate Student Organizing at the University of Minnesota M. Brown, R. Copher & K. Gray Brown 3. Moving River Barges: Labor Activism and Academic Organizations C. Nelson 4. Social Movement Unionism and Adjunct Faculty Organizing in Boston B. Gottfired & G. Zabel 5. Renewing Unions and Democrcay at the Same Time: The Case of the California Faculty Association S. Meisenhelder Conclusion