The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace

by Monika Krause (Editor), Mary Nolan (Editor), Michael Palm (Editor), Andrew Ross (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this book, written by people involved either involved in the strike (graduate students, faculty, organizers) or who are nationally recognized writers on academic labor, offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the current role of the university in public life, and how the pressure for universities to realign themselves along the lines of private corporations has broad implications for the future of higher education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592137411
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	02/15/2008
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Monika Krause is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at New York University.

Mary Nolan is professor of history at New York University.

Michael Palm is completing his PhD in the American Studies program at NYU.

Andrew Ross is Professor of American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University and author of Fast Boat To China, Low Pay, High Profile, and No-Collar.

Table of Contents

The University Against Itself:
 The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace   

    Edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm and Andrew Ross

                           Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I:  Corporate University?

Ashley Dawson and Penny Lewis, NYC: Academic Labor Town?
 
Ellen Schrecker, Academic Freedom in the Age of Casualization

Mary Nolan,  A Leadership University for the Twenty-first Century? Corporate Administration, Contingent labor, and the Erosion of Faculty Rights

Christopher Newfield and Greg Grandin,  Building a Statue of Smoke: 
The NYU Trustees, Finance Culture, and the Demotion of Intellectual Labor

Stephen Duncombe and Sarah Nash,   ICE From the Ashes of FIRE: NYU and the Economy of Culture in New York City

Adam Green, The High Cost of Learning:  Tuition, Educational Aid, and the New Economics of Prestige in Higher Education

Micki McGee, Blue Team, Gray Team: Some Varieties of the Contingent Faculty Experience


Part II:  GSOC Strike

Unions at NYU, 1971-2007

Susan Valentine, The Administration Strikes Back: Union Busting at NYU

Steve Fletcher, “Bad News for Academic Labor? Lessons in Media Strategy from the GSOC Strike

Maggie Clinton, Miabi Chatterji, Sherene Seikaly, Natasha Lightfoot,  Naomi Schiller,  “If Not Now, When?  Lessons Learned from GSOC's 2005-6 Strike”

Jeff Goodwin,  faculty 

Andrew Cornell,  Undergraduate Participation in Campus Labor Coalitions: Lessons from the NYU Strike

Matthew Osypowski (with Adam Graham Silverman), Operation Class-move

 Part III:  Lessons for the Future

The State of the Academic Labor Movement: A Roundtable with Stanley Aronowitz,  Barbara Bowen and Ed Ott, Moderated by Kitty Krupat

Andrew Ross,  Global U

Monika Krause, and Michael Palm, Activists into organizers! How to Work with Your Colleagues and Build Power in Graduate School
 
Gordon Lafer , Sorely Needed: A Corporate Campaign for the Corporate University
Cary Nelson, Graduate Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor