The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University

by Adrianna Kezar, Daniel T Scott, Tom dePaola, et al.

Why the Gig Academy is the dominant organizational form within the higher education economy--and its troubling implications for faculty, students, and the future of college education.

Over the past two decades, higher education employment has undergone a radical transformation with faculty becoming contingent, staff being outsourced, and postdocs and graduate students becoming a larger share of the workforce. For example, the faculty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421432706
• ISBN13: 9781421432700
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"