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FOREWORD
by MARC BOUSQUET
"The degree holder is the waste product of a job system that produces Ph.D. holders but does not use them. In language and literature more than any other field the teaching machine runs on non-degreed labor...."

What Hath English Wrought
by CARY NELSON
"As I sit at my computer thinking about the future of higher education, I have before me the final version of a collaborative document with its stunned, startled gaze fixed on the past. It is the Modern Language Association's report from its Committee on Professional Employment, issued in December 1997. The astonished gaze its collective author casts on recent history suggests the windswept visage of a profession no longer in control of its fate. Eyes bulging, the figure is nearly swept away by forces it cannot comprehend. In stark terror at their oncoming fury, it dares not turn to glimpse their destination...."

  • Unionizing Against Cutbacks by PAUL LAUTER
  • What is an Organization like the MLA? by STEVE WATT
  • The Future of an Illusion by CHRISTIAN A. GREGORY
  • Jobless Higher Ed: an interview with Stanley Aronowitz by ANDREW LONG
  • Resistance is Fruitful: Coalition-Building in Ontario by VICTORIA SMALLMAN
  • This Old House: Renovating the House of Labor at the City University of New York by BARBARA BOWEN

    This Life of Labor: Personal Criticism

  • Looking Forward in Anger by BARBARA WHITE
  • Performing Shakespeare: Writing and Literacy on the Job by LEO PARASCONDOLA
  • The Good Professors of Szechuan by GREGORY MEYERSON

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    "ORGANIZING OUR ASSES OFF"

  • Cannibals, Star Trek, and Egg Timers by KATE BURNS and ANTHONY M. NAVARRETE
  • Critical Year by ED FOX and CURTIS ANDERSON
  • What's Next?: Organizing After the COGS Union Affiliation Vote by JULIE MARIE SCHMID
  • 7,500 Down; 200,000 to Go: Organizing the City University of New York by ERIC MARSHALL
  • Unions, Universities, and the State of Texas by RAY WATKINS and KIRSTEN CHRISTENSEN
  • Organizing Democracy: a Response by KAREN THOMPSON
  • Beyond the Campus Gates: the Personal is Still Political by VINCENT TIRELLI
  • Institutional Memory and Changing Membership: How Can We Learn From What We Don't Recall by ALAN KALISH

    CONVENTION REPORTS

  • Report on the 1997 MLA Convention by MARK KELLEY
  • Report on the "Changing Graduate Education" Conference by ALAN KALISH

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    BOOK REVIEWS

  • Michael Denning's The Cultural Front by DEREK NYSTROM
  • Staughton Lynd's Living Inside Our Hope by PAUL MURPHY

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