Amidst unprecedented levels of union organizing in higher education, Gary Rhoades combines the perspectives of a scholar and labor movement activist and leader to provide a comprehensive analysis of organizing campaigns and collective bargaining agreements for faculty (contingent and tenure-track), graduate students, and postdoc employees. Academic employees are organizing and negotiating for respect for workers, their work, and the public value of higher education. Rhoades analyzes how academic employees are shifting the imbalance of power between labor and management, reducing the internal professional stratification between segments of the academic workforce, and intersecting workplace issues with broader issues of equality, public value, and social justice, and in the process organizing and negotiating for a new, more progressive academy.    
 

GARY RHOADES is a professor of higher education at the University of Arizona, Tuscon. He served as the president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2004 and was the General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors from 2009-2011. He is the author of Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor (SUNY, 1998) and co-author with Sheila Slaughter of American Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).

Chapter 1: Now is the Time
Chapter 2: A Critical Juncture and Distinctive Dynamism
 
Section 1: From the Margins to the Center: Contingent Academic Employees Organizing and Negotiating a New Academy
Chapter 3: Bread and Roses, and a Labor-Based Conception of Quality: A New Faculty Majority Organizing a New Academy
Chapter 4: Embedding Bread and Roses and Labor-Based Quality in Part-time Only Bargaining Units
Chapter 5: Graduate Student and Postdoc Employees: More Than Would-Be Apprentice Organizing and Negotiating New Contingency in an Old Academy
 
Section 2: Faculty Negotiating Retrenchment and Technology Amidst Management's Austerity Agenda
Chapter 6: Challenging Management’s Austerity Practices: Organizing Amidst and Negotiating Furloughs
Chapter 7: Negotiating Management’s Austerity Practices: Retrenchment for Financial Exigency and Other Reasons in the Contracts
Chapter 8: Protections and Possibilities in Negotiating a Progressive Academy Amidst New Circuits of Production
Chapter 9: Organizing and Negotiating for Respect and Public Purpose: Toward a New Progressive Normal

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index