{"product_id":"how-the-university-works-higher-education-and-the-low-wage-nation-9780814799758","title":"How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUncovers the labor exploitation occurring in universities across the country\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees--including the vast majority of faculty--really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy. Tenure-track positions are at an all-time low, with adjuncts and graduate students teaching the majority of courses. This super-exploited corps of disposable workers commonly earn fewer than $16,000 annually, without benefits, teaching as many as eight classes per year. Even undergraduates are being exploited as a low-cost, disposable workforce. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarc Bousquet, a major figure in the academic labor movement, exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education--a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages. Assessing the costs of higher education's corporatization on faculty and students at every level, \u003ci\u003eHow the University Works \u003c\/i\u003eis urgent reading for anyone interested in the fate of the university.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBousquet, Marc:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMarc Bousquet\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Santa Clara University and the founding editor of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. His previous books include Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers and The Politics of Information: The Electronic Mediation of Social Change.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNelson, Cary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eCary Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e is Jublilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the national president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Among his twenty-five books are Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (also published by NYU) and the landmark coedited collection Cultural Studies.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328807047442,"sku":"9780814799758","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5947a9dc-cace-40a5-bd7a-6aa093691c0a.jpg?v=1727752471","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-the-university-works-higher-education-and-the-low-wage-nation-9780814799758","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}