Chalk Lines

""Chalk Lines" is a powerful analysis and indictment of the emerging corporate university. It illuminates the crisis of academic labor by placing it in the context of global economic change. Everyone concerned with higher education should read this book and reflect on it deeply."--Cary Nelson, coauthor of "Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education"

The corporatisation of education has served to expose the university as a business and one with a highly stratified division of labour. This work presents twelve essays that confront challenges facing the academic workforce in US colleges and universities and demonstrate how, like chalk lines, divisions between employees may be creatively redrawn.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Education as National Pedagogy / Randy MartinI: The Whole BusinessAcademic Capitalism, Managed Professionals, and Supply-Side Higher Education / Gary Rhoades and Sheila SlaughterRecapturing Academic Business / Christopher NewfieldThe Stratification of the Academy / Zelda F. GamsonThe Ascent toward Corporate Managerialism in American and Australian Universities / Jan Currie and Lesley VidovichII: The Academy's LaborEducation for Public Life / David MontgomeryDoing Academic Work / Stefano Harney and Frederick MotenAdjuncts and More Adjuncts: Labor Segmentation and the Transformation of Higher Education / Vincent TirelliThe Last Good Job in America / Stanley AronowitzIII: Siting Specifics, Striking BackEducation, Job Skills, or Workfare: The Crisis Facing Adult Literacy Education Today / Emily Hacker and Ira YankwittIn Defense of CUNY / Bart MeyersFaculty, Students, and Political Engagement / Jeremy SmithNeed a Break from Your Dissertation? Organize a Union! / William VaughnIndexContributors