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Call for Papers: Higher education organizing is the fastest growing sector of labor organizing in the U.S., and over the past decade the vast majority of these organizing successes have occurred in graduate-employee and contingent faculty ranks. Certainly successful academic labor campaigns—Iowa, Columbia College, the revitalization of the Graduate Assistants United, COCAL—offer lessons for academic labor activists. There is also much to be learned from the academic labor movement's setbacks as well. "Successes and Setbacks in Academic Labor Struggle" will suggest how these lessons can be applied to future efforts to organize among the graduate-employee and contingent faculty ranks. Potential topics include but are not limited to: The difficulties of establishing worker consciousness on campus, legal challenges to union organizing, the relationship between unionized graduate employees and unionized faculty, organizing a transient workforce, the relationship between the local and the international union, and the relationship between unionists and other social justice groups. Contributions for Workplace should be 5000-7000 words in length and should conform to MLA style. Paragraphs and sections should be numbered for ease of reading on computer screen (i.e., 1.1 for the first paragraph, 1.2 for the second, etc.). If interested, please send an abstract via word attachment to Julie Schmid (jschmid@aaup.org) by Friday, May 5, 2004. Completed essays will be due via email by Friday, August 4, 2004. |
