Organizing"Professionals" Format: Paperback

Amidst unprecedented levels of union organizing in higher education, Gary Rhoades combines the perspectives of a scholar and labor movement activist and leader to provide a comprehensive analysis of organizing campaigns and collective bargaining agreements for faculty (contingent and tenure-track), graduate students, and postdoc employees. Academic employees are organizing and negotiating for respect for workers, their work, and the public value of higher education. Rhoades analyzes how academic employees are shifting the imbalance of power between labor and management, reducing the internal professional stratification between segments of the academic workforce, and intersecting workplace issues with broader issues of equality, public value, and social justice, and in the process organizing and negotiating for a new, more progressive academy.    
 

GARY RHOADES is a professor of higher education at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He served as the president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2004 and was the general secretary of the American Association of University Professors from 2009 to 2011. He is the author of Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor (1998) and coauthor with Sheila Slaughter of American Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education (2009).