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Academic Labor at the Crossroads?: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW ROSS

Academic Labor at the Crossroads?: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW ROSS Malini Johar Schueller and Ashley Dawson Social Text 90, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 2007 DOI 10.1215/01642472-2006-020 © 2007 Duke University Press indivisible. But what does it mean today when most academic professionals are unlikely to see much of either? Solutions include more sensitivity to the situation and rights of contingent faculty, and more organizations that are open to all. It would be dangerous, however, to conclude that these key principles should be sidelined because they are out of reach for most university teachers. The same might be said of “shared governance” — the other AAUP pillar. Most faculty governance systems make no provision for representing the rights and interests of part-timers or full-timers on limited contracts (the biggest growth sector in academic labor). In this area, at least, reforms are well overdue, university governance should be expanded beyond tenure-track faculty and senior administrators to include contingent faculty and, for that matter, managerial professionals, whose expertise is crucial to matters of governance and who have an equally legitimate stake in the system. AD & MJS: The culture wars returned with a vengeance after 9/11. Indeed, writers such as David Cole have compared the current moment to the McCarthy http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Social Text Duke University Press

Academic Labor at the Crossroads?: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW ROSS

Social Text , Volume 25 (1 90) – Mar 1, 2007

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press
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0164-2472
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1527-1951
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10.1215/01642472-2006-020
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Malini Johar Schueller and Ashley Dawson Social Text 90, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 2007 DOI 10.1215/01642472-2006-020 © 2007 Duke University Press indivisible. But what does it mean today when most academic professionals are unlikely to see much of either? Solutions include more sensitivity to the situation and rights of contingent faculty, and more organizations that are open to all. It would be dangerous, however, to conclude that these key principles should be sidelined because they are out of reach for most university teachers. The same might be said of “shared governance” — the other AAUP pillar. Most faculty governance systems make no provision for representing the rights and interests of part-timers or full-timers on limited contracts (the biggest growth sector in academic labor). In this area, at least, reforms are well overdue, university governance should be expanded beyond tenure-track faculty and senior administrators to include contingent faculty and, for that matter, managerial professionals, whose expertise is crucial to matters of governance and who have an equally legitimate stake in the system. AD & MJS: The culture wars returned with a vengeance after 9/11. Indeed, writers such as David Cole have compared the current moment to the McCarthy

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Published: Mar 1, 2007

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