Academic Labor Has Undergone a Massive Casualization

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.