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вЂњMartinвЂ™s contributors, all but two of whom are professors or doctoral candidates, detail theortical connections between academic unions and traditional unionized labor. If you run an educational management programme, you might consider making Chalk Lines compulsory reading.вЂќ - Paul Haslam, Journal of Further and Higher Education

CHALK LINES PROFESSIONAL

Professional associations and employee-relations groups may gain inspiration from actions which have successfully challenged the managerial model.

If you teach in undergraduate or professional programmes in business, personnel or public service management, you will find useful case studies. If you are concerned about the way higher education is going and the perpetual changes under which we labour, you might be tempted to read from cover to cover. It offers some of the critical analysis and organizing tips we will need if we are to fight back to preserve and improve not only our own jobs, but the futures of our students.вЂќ - Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, Science & Society Chalk Lines raises crucial questions facing the academy 20 years after the Reagan revolution. вЂњAВ useful primer for anyone wanting to understand-and join-the battle. вЂњ critical orientation, intellectual insights, and interventionist objectives are important and valuable.вЂќ - Janice A. he contributors to Chalk Lines might help the rest of us get up to speed.вЂќ - Larry Hanley, American Book Review The apostles of efficiency and вЂwealth creationвЂ™ have a head start in the race to remake the University. As the public provision dries up everywhere-from colleges and universities, to welfare, to non-profit media, to libraries-the nature of academic identity, work, status, and experience is up for grabs. вЂњ Chalk Lines signal the end of the post-war вЂacademic revolution,вЂ™ an exceptional moment of growth and development in American higher education that produced the academic вЂprofessionвЂ™ as we now know it. Gamson, Emily Hacker, Stefano Harney, Randy Martin, Bart Meyers, David Montgomery, Frederick Moten, Christopher Newfield, Gary Rhoades, Sheila Slaughter, Jeremy Smith, Vincent Tirelli, William Vaughn, Lesley Vidovich, Ira Yankwitt With its important, timely contribution to debates concerning the future of higher education, Chalk Lines will interest a wide array of academics, administrators, policymakers, and others invested in the state-and fate-of academia.Д¬ontributors.

Originally published as an issue of Social Text, this expanded volume, which includes four new essays, offers a broad view of academic labor in the United States. Placing such issues within the context of the history of labor movements as well as governmental initiatives to train a workforce capable of competing in the global economy, Chalk Lines explores how universities have attempted to remake themselves in the image of the corporate sector. They examine the trend toward restructuring and downsizing, the particular plight of the adjunct professor, the growing emphasis on vocational training in the classroom, and union organizing among university faculty, staff, and graduate students. While tracing the socioeconomic conditions that have led to the present labor situation on campuses, the contributors consider such topics as the political implications of managerialism and the conceptual status of academic labor. colleges and universities and demonstrate how, like chalk lines, divisions between employees may be creatively redrawn. In Chalk Lines editor Randy Martin presents twelve essays that confront current challenges facing the academic workforce in U.S. The increasing corporatization of education has served to expose the university as a business-and one with a highly stratified division of labor.

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