If you'd like to share your story for the next book, I can interview you or loan you a camera. I'm especially interested in the working lives of undergraduates, graduate student employees, staff, and contingent faculty. Just email me at pmbousquet (at) gmail or add a comment on the weblog with your contact information. I'll be in touch
		Teaching.. Publications.. Video Blog...marcbousquet.net New! The latest featured video (including "Faculty on Food Stamps." "Play Ph.D. Casino!" and "Higher Ed: Free for All") is available on the How The University Works youtube channel. Use the miniplayer above or follow the link for full-size. New! The book is now shipping from NYU Press and is being offered at a discount by Amazon ($17.25). You can order it, see reviews and read more, including excerpts, on my weblog with video at howtheuniversityworks.com. Future video content includes interviews with Adolph Reed on why higher education should be free (and how we can do it for less than we spend in a month on the Iraq war)* Jane Buck on the future of the AAUP * Julie Schmid and Flo Hatcher on organizing contingent faculty and graduate employees * California Faculty Association leaders Susan Meisenhelder and Elizabeth Hoffman on how to buttonhole a legislator near you * and many, many more including Jeffrey Williams * Cary Nelson * Patty Harkin * Paul Lauter * Rosemary Feal * Katherine Hayles * Steven Mailloux * Michelle Masse *Katie Hogan * Robert Samuels * Joe Urgo * Jamie Owen Daniel *John Wilson * Sid Dobrin * ......

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financial aid * debt * exploitation * workers * academic life * graduate employees *AAUP * American
Association of University Professors * corporate university * corporatization * globalization *
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions * CGEU * Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor * COCAL *
tenure * tenured faculty * nontenurable faculty * adjuncts * freeway flyers * teaching assistants *
undergraduates * work-study * informal economy * Yeshiva decision * NYU decision * Brown decision
GESO * GEO * Yale * University of California * University of Ilinois * United Auto Workers * National
Education Association * NEA * UAW * American Federation of Teachers * AFT * SEIU * youth workers
Ph.D. * Ph.D.s * Ph.D.'s * academic job market * Modern Language Association * MLA * job system *
job search * tenure-track positions * lecturers * UPS * Earn and Learn * Metropolitan College *
MonsterTrak * low wages * service economy * outsourcing * permatemping * casualization
cultural studies * humanities * arts and sciences * fine arts * music education * writing instruction
* rhetoric and composition * education administration *administrator salaries *race, gender, and
distributive justice in higher ed * education leadership *management theory * education management
organizations * HMO * William Bowen * William Massey * Stanley Aronowitz * residential assistants
tenure-stream * professorship * professorial * collegiate * graduate schools * graduate programs
assistantships * fellowships * recruiting * tenured bosses and disposable teachers * management
theory * Sloan Foundation * Clark Kerr * Carnegie Foundation * information university * distance
learning * distance education * for-profit education * Phoenix * Sperling * Workplace: A Journal of
Academic Labor * super-exploitation * mental labor * psychic wage * free labor * digital goods *
intellectual property * intellectual commons * intellectuals * intellectual workers * Toyotism *
Total Quality Management * TQM * Birnbaum * Cybernetic systems theory * Quality movement *
state appropriations * public education * public higher education * public colleges * public
universities * campus organizations * United Students Against Sweatshops * USAS * women
faculty * unequal pay * male faculty *female lecturers * comparable worth * federal funding *
retrenchment * reorganization * downsizing * Responsibility Center Management * RCM *
flexibility * organizational restructuring * corporate model * corporate influence * directed
curiousity * corporate funding of academic research * patents * temps * Generation X *
Generation Y * millenials * Marc Bousquet * Cary Nelson * Vincent Leitch * How the University
Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation *