Reclaiming the Ivory Tower by Joe Berry

Reclaiming the Ivory Tower by Joe Berry

Reclaiming the Ivory Tower examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher education today, describes the process of organizing them to improve their conditions of work, and puts forward an agenda around which adjunct labor can mobilize and transform the universities.
In the last twenty years, higher education in the United States has been eroded by massive reliance on temporary academic labor--professors without tenure or prospect of tenure, without benefits, working without offices or research assistance, often commuting between several campuses, and paid a fraction of the salaries of the tenured colleagues. Contingent faculty now constitutes the majority of faculty at U.S. colleges and universities.
Analyzing the changing composition of the academic workforce, assessing the strength of new organizing initiatives among adjuncts, and weighing up their strategic options, this is the most comprehensive and engaged account to date of an issue that will become increasingly important for the future of higher education in the United States and in the global context.

Joe Berry was born in 1930 in his grandfather's dogtrot house in rural west Alabama. He was one of five children; at age six, his father left the family to look for work and was not heard from again until 1947. Berry is a product of the Great Depression. Against great odds, and with the assistance of many people, he obtained a law degree and enjoyed forty years of success as a trial lawyer in Huntsville, Alabama. The charm and poetry of his life was not found in his modest accomplishments, but in the beauty of opportunities our great country has provided.

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ISBN 13	9781583671290
ISBN 10	1583671293
Title	Reclaiming the Ivory Tower
Author	Joe Berry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Year published	2005-11-01
Number of pages	160
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