Academic Labor Has Undergone a Massive Casualization

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Academic labor has undergone a really massive casualization with roughly 70% of professors currently working off the tenure track, most of them making less than $3,500 per course. There's been an increasing turn towards subcontracting, towards hiring, temporary, towards gigworking. All of this is just finding its reflection in the conditions of academic employment. I think it might be helpful to your listeners to explain what academic labor used to look like versus what it looks like now.

Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism. Read Dan's interview in The Nation thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com Buy On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich haymarketbooks.org/books/1949-on-shedding-an-obsolete-past