Maintained by Owen Thomas for the Contract Faculty Association in Columbus OH.
See also: Organizations page and general links page.

• The Invisible Adjunct (RIP); (other academic blogs).
• A Review of Web Sites for Contingent Faculty, by James C. McDonald, in Kairos.
• Workplace: the Journal for Academic Labor. Lots of outstanding material here. Marc Bousquet, editor.
• Joe Berry
  • "Contingent Faculty in Higher Education" (Ph.D. Thesis; 2002) PDF and Word.
  • The bibliography for said thesis, in good old HTML.
  • A shorter bibliography, at Chicago COCAL.
  • "In a Leftover Office" (from Cogs in the Classroom Factory, 2003).
  • A PDF version of same.
  • Reports on Cocal V (2002) and Campus Equity Week (2001).
  • RAFO and NAFFE.
• Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation (at Alan Liu's stunning Voice of the Shuttle---to c. 1999).
• Black and Blue (three issues; 1996--1998).
• AFT On Campus; also Academic Labor (call for papers; new annual).
• NEA Advocate Online.
• Academe Online (AAUP).
• Radical Teacher.
• COCAL V reports.
  • "Time for a New Deal", by Ann Larson.
  • "Contingent Labor Meets", by Vinnie Tirelli.
• The Campus Equity Week (2003) site lists these articles; I swiped the most interesting but it may have been updated since then.
• "Part-Time Labor and a Profession in Crisis", by David Slavin (in the Radical Historians Newsletter, December 2000).
• "Invisible Faculty" by John K. Wilson, in the (Bloomington-Normal) Indy 03.08.02.
• "Part-time Teachers: The AHA Survey", by Robert B. Townsend (of the American Historical Association), in Perspectives Online.
• Statement From the Conference on the Growing Use of Part-time and Adjunct Faculty: September 26--27, 1999.
• "Who Is Teaching In U.S. College Classrooms?" A Collaborative Study of Undergraduate Faculty: Fall 1999 by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce.
• Digital Diploma Mills/A>, by David Noble (1997--2001): indispensible. The DDM page at Amazon dot com. One more excerpt.
• Some notes on legislation (state by state).
• The 1999 MLA Conference
  • Three talks at the MLA, December 1999 (by F. L. Carr, Victoria Smallman, and Julie Schmid). "Building Coalitions of Resistance" by Julie Schmid in particular.
  • "The Speech That Ended My Academic Career", by Bill Pannapacker (it didn't). More by Pannapacker (and "Thomas Hart Benton") including "The Adjunct Rip-Off".
  • Two pieces from the Chronicle on job-market issues at MLA 1999.
  • "Down and Out in Academia, or, Profs and Proles" by Sarah Boxer (NYT report on MLA conference).
• The American Association of University Professors
  • Index on Part-time Faculty.
  • The Status of Part-Time Faculty (from the Redbook).
  • "Contingent Appointments and the Academic Profession" (November '03).
  • "The Unionization of Cleveland State", by Rodger Govea.
  • Richard Moser
    • "The New Academic Labor System, Corporatization, and the Renewal of Academic Citizenship" (8/01).
    • "A Conversation with Richard Moser", in the Labor Party Press (1/01).
    • "The AAUP Organizes Part-time Faculty" (from Academe Nov-Dec '00; on COCAL in Boston).
  • "Taking a Seat at the Table" (Lisa Kartus; also from Academe Nov-Dec '00).
  • Background Facts and Guidelines for Good Practice.
  • "Liberal Education and Social Responsibility", by Jane Buck (June '03).
  • Contingent Faculty Fund, administered by AAUP, gets the royalties for Steal This University (Benjamin Johnson , Patrick Kavanagh , Kevin Mattson; 2003).
• Will Teach for Food (edited by Cary Nelson, 1997).
  "The Proletarianization of Academic Labor": Stephanie Camp's review in The Black and Blue; another review, from Education Review; Barbara Foley's review in Contemporary Literature. An call-in discussion with Cary Nelson by the Chronicle.
• "Graduate Education is Losing Its Moral Base", by Cary Nelson & Michael Berube, in the Chronicle (1994).
• Several pieces by the execrable Jill Carroll.
• Degrees of Shame
  • This piece by Mike Budd in Jump Cut is more than a review.
• Ghosts in the Classroom (Michael Dubson). I ordered this directly from "Camel's Back" but he stiffed me.
• Moving a Mountain. Eileen Schell and Patricia Lambert Stock.
• Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers, also by Schell.
• "Too Casual, Too Blue" (PDF) from GESO at Yale.
• "At The Edge of a New Dark Age", by John McMurty.
• "The Benefits Gap", by Daniel Gursky, in American Teacher.
• "Part-time academic labor & the future of higher education", in Industrial Worker (11/98).
• "Progress on Addressing Contingent Work Issues in Academia", by Daniel Jacoby, in Education Policy Analysis Archives. October 8, 2001.
• "Why 100% Pro-Rata Pay?", by Chris Storer of CPFA.
• Ali Zaidi
  • "Dismantling SUNY", in Against the Current, September/October 1999.
  • "The Rochester Renaissance Plan", in Cultural Logic.
• Being Adjuncts: an (arcanely) archived listserv from Bedford/St. Martin's.
• "Eggheads Unite", by Daniel Duane (NY Times, 5/4/03).
• "Brain Wash": weird scenes from U of Missouri, KC.
• Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers, by Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola.
  • Bousquet's Introduction is reprinted in the minnesota review.
• New Labor Forum.
• Have you read about the Disciplined Minds scandal yet? Amazing but true!
• A list of labor libraries with webpages.
• Bibliographies
  • An annotated bibliography by Robert Pankin and Carla Weiss. Another version.
  • Corporatization of Higher Ed, by Deborah Herman, COGS (U. of Iowa).
  • PT Faculty in the Washington State Press, by Keith Hoeller.
  • A contingent faculty page from the NEA Advocate.

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June 15, 2004