Showing posts with label study re working conditions for adjunct instructors. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 20, 2016

When Dignity Costs Too Much; Inside Higher Ed via Slate, March 2016

Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed via Slate; When Dignity Costs Too Much:
"Even if the adjunct movement for better working conditions succeeds, most adjuncts will lose. That’s one bold claim of a recent paper on the costs associated with a number of the movement’s goals, such as better pay and benefits. While activists and scholars have been quick to criticize what they call the paper’s inherently flawed logic, the study’s authors say it is a first step in a more critical dialogue on the adjunct “dilemma.”"