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“Class
struggle is basic to the capitalist mode of production in the region of
‘mental’ labor, just as it is to be found in the realm of physical production.
It is basic not because it is a sign of the special quality of mental labor,
but because it is simply labor.” George Caffentzis, “Why Machines Cannot
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University: Rise of the Education Management Organization
A Special
Issue of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, together with a
companion critical volume
Proposals
due September 15, 2001
See theCFP
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Featured
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Composition
as Management Science
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Co-edited
by Tony Scott, Leo Parascondola, and Tony Baker
TDC/Workplace
award nominee Sarah Hardgrave with Annie Bruce
New
at Workplace: beginning with this issue, we
plan to make available in book form expanded versions of many of our semiannual
feature topics. Sometime in the next 18 months, you should be able to get
this issue as a book, including 12 additional essays by: Paul Lauter,
Gary Rhoades, Donald Lazere, Jennifer Trainor and Amanda Godley,
Richard Miller, Chris Ferry, Jon Curtiss, Marc Bousquet, and many others.
Check back for details. |
So part of
the professional model is to educate you to think of yourself as some-
one who manages labor, as
opposed to being a laborer--I think that is very true. But I also think
comp just refuses to recognize the ways in which it is built upon the exploited
labor of others. To recognize that would make us ask why are we sitting
in a hotel in Denver drinking vodka and talking about students who can
never afford to be here being taught by flex workers who also can't afford
to come.
--Steve Parks
Steve
Parks: An Appreciation
Eli Goldblatt
Class
Politics and Democratic Culture:An Interview with Steve Parks
Tony
Scott
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"In
the past thirty years, Composition has been blessed by luminaries who have
opened up critical options to traditional instruction. Yet all this remarkable
activity rests on a mountain of cheap labor, where too many women teachers
are paid too little for too much work in classes structured against the
language and interests of working students and those of color. --Ira
Shor
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Abolish
or Perish? Managed Labor in Composition:
A
Roundtable with Sharon Crowley with
Walter Jacobsohn, Eric Marshall, Michael Murphy, Karen Thompson and Katherine
Wills
moderated
by Tony Baker
Roundtable
with Cary Nelson: Composition, Cultural Studies, and Academic LaborwithAlan
France, Robin Goodman, Patricia Harkin, William Hendricks, Eileen Schell,and
James Sosnoski
moderated
by Chris Carter
Organized
Labor, Writing Instruction and Education Technology
Kim
van Alkemade
Also
with this issue, we welcome Tony Scott to the group of general editors.
He will work on developing Workplace's interactivity, especially reciprocal
links and our forthcoming Wall of Talk, a BBS-style board with guests from
labor and critical higher ed rotating discussion topics every six weeks.
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One
Rhetoric Fits All: What Graduate Student Unions Have Taught Us about Higher
Education and the Public Sphere
John
Marsh
Building
a Sustainable Graduate Union or, The Epic Importance of the Mundane
Laurie
Ousley and Michael Rozendal
In 2000 three awards were made:James
Thompson,
Graduate Assistants United/NEA(University
of Florida)
Kitty Krupat, Graduate
Students Organizing Committee/UAW Local 2110(New
York University)
Ken Lang, Graduate
Student Employee Action Coalition/UAW, (University
of Washington) |
"In
the last two or three years in Gainesville, especially, we've seen crossover
activism that is unlike anything I've ever seen or read about before. I
like to say that Seattle is simply a popular manifestation of something
that is really going on at a lot of places and has been going on for awhile.
When you go to events now, you look around and it's not clear that there's
one organization that is dominant. There are GAU people, there are NOW
people, there are GREENS, there are older activists from the community
who have been here 10, 20, 30 years sometimes. There are academic activists,
there are working people, there are mothers and fathers and families at
these things. These people come from all different walks of life. The activism
here in town is not so clearly labor activism or radical activism or marching
or protesting; it's just kind of a mix of everything because of the crossover.--James
Thompson
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To link to
many of the 50 campuses featuring graduate-employee organizing, try the
CGEU (Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions) index:
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