Reclaiming the ivory tower : organizing adjuncts to change higher education / Joe Berry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.

Contingent faculty today: who we are -- Casualization as corporatization -- A few statistics -- Good work but a bad living -- How our class position has changed -- Contingent life and conditions -- Other losers: students and society -- Contingent faculty organizing -- Material conditions and power relations -- Consciousness : how our colleagues think -- Our full-time tenured and tenure track colleagues (fttt) -- Administrators' perspectives and vulnerabilities -- Who are the activists? -- The message: respect -- Competitive unionism, pro and con -- The politics of lists -- Going on staff: promotion or demotion? -- Reverse engineering a good union: participant action research (par) -- Guides for a national strategy -- The Chicago experience -- Map of the Metro Chicago workforce -- Organizers' voices -- "How and why I first got involved" -- Campaign beginnings: sparks and issues -- "How we chose a union" -- "What we did right" -- "What didn't work" -- "How the employer responded" -- Organizing committees and who leads them -- Relations with union staff -- Negotiating a first contract -- Contrasting viewpoints -- Building a real union -- Future strategies, visions and goals -- Lessons from interviews -- A metro organizing strategy -- Research -- A "contingent faculty center" : virtual and actual -- Services : professional and personal -- Assistance for organizing -- Regional publicity -- Direct demands and advocacy -- Alliances, coalitions and external solidarity -- Alternatives in sponsorship and organizational structure -- Calendar -- Budget -- Getting down to work : an organizer's toolbox -- Even two are a committee -- Your right to organize -- Building a committee -- Taking care of each other -- Acting like a union -- Dealing with divisions -- Communications-from office whispers to the internet -- Analyzing the enemy -- We have some advantages -- We are not alone : finding allies on campus and off.

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