... . Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Writing . New York : Oxford U P , 1977 . Shor Ira . “ Illegal Literacy .” Journal of Basic Writing 9.1 ( 2000 ). Leo Parascondola Crossing the Remedial Bridge: Political Economy, Contingent Labor, and Differentiation...

... focus more on the role of contingent labor as leaders in the movement for class- based solidarity. Of all the responses to the university’s decline, the movement to unionize graduate and adjunct employees, which dates back to the postwar period, most explicitly frames...

... of decision's renewal. This phenomenon, along with the curtailed temporalities that it engenders, is crystallized, though in a different register, in Beckett's 1981 play for television, Quad . © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 neoliberalism post-Fordism environmental power contingent labor liquidity...

... Committee on Long-Term Policy for Freshman Composition (including Subject A): 2004-2005 . http://senate.UCRiverside.edu Griffin Susan . “ Contingent Labor and the Disciplines: A Round-Table Discussion .” COCAL IV: Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor conference , San Jose, California...

.... Eighteen years ago Mary G. Edwards published “The Decline of the American Professoriate, 1970-1990,” in which she outlined the all-too-familiar signposts: stagnant wages; the rise in contingent labor and deterioration of tenure-track positions; the feminization...

... expressed aim of reducing the amount of contingent labor, without it looking like these would be replacements for striking workers. Ostensibly being brought in to fill brand-new positions, the fact that these adjunct professors might conveniently be asked to substitute for striking workers...

... to say, “Everything is gone.” (50–51) Trethewey’s anaphora sets different temporalities of globalization in counterpoint, conjuring a homologous grammar of finality. Read in this way, the repetition of the sentences captures the contingent rhythms of labor in the wake of cataclysm, while...

... Chodorow’s groundbreaking text, The Reproduction of Mothering, reproducing professing in ways that are detrimental to my students and to my own goals. As tenure-track job placement for PhDs in language and literature fields shrinks to 50 percent, as contingent labor swells to almost two-thirds...

... with political implications in the same way that tenure, contingent labor, and the crisis in graduate education are keywords for cultural studies and Marxist scholars. The CSWP status reports should be widely disseminated, so that deans, provosts, tenure and promotion committees, chairpersons...

... : University of Haifa Press . Greenstein Ran . 2009 . “ Class, Nation, and Political Organization: The Anti-Zionist Left in Israel/Palestine .” International Labor and Working-Class History , no. 75 : 85 – 108 . Gutwein Daniel . 1989 . “ Borochov, Haborochovism, Vehaborochovistim...

..., of the necessary professional functions requisite for such recognition. But in the eyes of the law neither graduate students nor their mentors even so much as work at the university. According to the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University...

... by this kind of labor system for six years now, my credo takes the form of a proposal for working against it. So this essay is an argument for developing, as a counterpart to the class consciousness of the contingent (grad or adjunct) instructor, a graduate student “pack consciousness”—a mode...

... of labor, some of those who must sell their labor-time in order to live will discount their wages for the more pleasant occupations—that in some professions the presence of a “psychic wage” encourages workers to accept a lower cash price. There are certainly problems...

... contingent workforce” (323). Future studies in this vein would do well to factor the contingent into their calculations. At some institutions, contingent instructors comprise the preponderance of the teaching force. One such university is NYU, whose labor dynamics are treated at length...

... options are available for artistic and cultural projects that attempt to imagine their way through, and/or intervene in, the neoliberal forces producing these attritions in, and of, labor and life. Drawing from certain developments in postwar avant-garde art and culture (e.g., Debord's notion of drift...

..., for example, tacit assumptions about the division of labor in the household. Nor does it preclude attention to the contingency and mutability of life worlds, as shaped, for example, by rapidly changing relations to media technologies. (I take for granted, after Merleau-Ponty...

... of derac- ination in the history of blackface minstrelsy. Literary hip, like black- face before it, alienates both the performer and the performed from the relations of production implied in it. The result is the reification of working-class African American labor and at the same time the mys...

... ranks of corporate executives. With this centralization has come a corresponding decrease in faculty governance and academic freedom. This has been facilitated by a growing reliance on contingent academic labor, including GAs, adjuncts, lecturers and other non-tenure track faculty...

..., and individuals are immersed within a world filled with documentation. Michael Buckland notes how “documents are pervasive in society and shape our lives. Dependence on documents has increased over time. Modern economies are based on an ever-increasing division of labor and on the existence of markets...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Jeffrey J. Williams Higher Exploitation: An Interview with Marc Bousquet For the past decade, Marc Bousquet has been one of the most trenchant critics of labor practices in higher education, especially...