Academic Labor in the Corporate University: The Challenge for Unions

Authors

  • Jphn Magney

Abstract

Over the past several decades, a new paradigm of organization has been reshaping higher education in the United States. Most colleges and universities now operate like knowledge factories. Notions of faculty governance have been eroded by the decision-making power of an emergent elite class of professional administrators.

 

Author Biography

Jphn Magney

John Magney is an assistant professor in the School of Information Science and Applied Technology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He teaches and does research on labor relations and other topics in technical management. He has been a longtime activist in the campus Faculty Association.

 

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Published

2006-03-01

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2006)

Section

Articles