picture 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
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New! Higher Exploitation, an extended interview with me in minnesota review

New! My English 138 students have begun to publish their hypertexts. See some work in progress below. Earlier this term they remixed Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother in machnima (animated film) shot in the Second Life virtual community. About ten films have been produced for this YouTube playlist. I learned about the novel from Henry Jenkins, and thought that it would help students get more out of the machinima-in-SL assignment. These machinima are a first pass at video composition for the students, who will eventually compose other video (as PSAs, interviews, dramatizations, etc) for embedding in academic hypertexts like these:
convict labor child labor and migrant farm workers
sweatshops in the bay area str
ippers as low-wage workers

Spring 2009
English 138 Internet Culture and the Information Society

Tuesday section: Bassem Banafa... Lydia Biddle... Erin Ching... Bryan Donaldson... Erikka Fisk... Margaret Hooper... John Howard... John Irby... Courtney Jaeckels... Audrey Kumasaka... Samuel Lee... Kat Lin... Sam Llona... Justin Lorentz... Jackie Lynch... Katrina Marume... Mariam Mostamandy... Matt Peterson... Katherine Quinn-Shea... Kellie Quist... Calvin Ruiz... Chris Stamas... Kevin Sullivan... Katherine Tolentino...

Monday section: Melissa Zhao... Dyani Vanderhorst... Kristen Ryder... Rena Pompa... Jennifer Hinds... Katie Ranney... Patrick Boocock... Chris Rose... Jeremy Black... Traci Saito... Meghan Mooney... Woodson Hobbs... Marie Fuchslin... Danielle Miller... Marco Lostaunau... Mike Wong...Thomas Favero... Hilary Titus... Franscesca Dugan... Kim Courtney...

The two chapters of How The University Works most frequently assigned to undergraduates are available as free downloads, Ch 1: Your Problem is My Problem (pdf) and Ch 4: Extreme Work Study (pdf). Both are written for a general audience.

New video releases on the youtube channel will resume Summer 2010. These include interviews with 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 Stefano Harney* 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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higher education * colleges and universities * faculty * labor * teaching * students * student loans *
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 *