Graduate Students at Work

Exploited Scholars of Neoliberal Higher Ed
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-7006-3407-1
Verlag: University Press of Kansas

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Graduate Students at Work highlights the expertise and experiences of graduate students to demonstrate what graduate study entails, what it makes possible, and what it constrains in the context of corporatizing higher education. This collection of full-length research articles and short personal essays illustrates graduate students’ experiences, organizing tactics, and strategies for staying in or moving out of the academy.Speaking from personal experience as well as reporting research findings, the contributors of Graduate Students at Work illustrate the significant expertise that graduate students are asked to enact in their time-intensive jobs as teachers, researchers, and administrators, even as they are kept in poverty wages for the decade or so it takes to move through a master’s and doctoral program into the promised land of a tenure-track job. While these students are the leaders of the academic labor movement, they have yet to receive as much attention as adjunct instructors and other laborers in the university system. Though they experience harassment, discrimination, and exploitation, graduate students rarely have access to labor protections because they are often misclassified as students, not employees—a key rhetorical strategy universities use to fight graduate student organizing.

These essays and articles also draw insightful connections between the labor conditions of graduate student workers and other workers navigating poverty wages, labor migration, limited benefits, and harassment and discrimination around lines of race, gender, ability, and citizenship—the most important connection perhaps being the possibility for organization and unionization to fight for better working conditions for all.

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Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wirtschaftspädagogik, Berufspädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Graduate Students are Hyper-Exploited, Tessa Brown Part I: Labor at the MarginsInterlude 1. Levels to This Sh*t: Layers of Graduate Student Labor, Khadeidra Billingsley1. “I Have to Go Wherever There’s an Opportunity”: Graduate Students’ Experiences of Placelessness and Writing, Charlotte Kupsh and Zoe McDonaldInterlude 2. Invisible Marginalization in Academia, Samah ElbelaziInterlude 3. Invisible Labors and Entangled Emergence, Andrew Hollinger2.“Like I’m ‘The Man’”: Graduate Student Administrators’ Experiences, Talinn Phillips, Paul Shovlin, and Megan TitusInterlude 4. The Ethics of Progressive Internships, Meagan Gacke-Reed3. “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone”: Explorations of Unbalanced Labor and Mentorship in a Blended Learning Doctoral Program, April Cobos and Megan MizePart II: The Labor of Teaching and Research4. Will This Take Me Anywhere? Investing Time in Graduate Student Teaching, Elliot ShapiroInterlude 5. Establishing Ethos for a Translingual GTA—The Unwritten Labor, Anis Rahman5. Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn, Sara Austin and Kelly MorelandInterlude 6. Mothering and Laboring as a Graduate Student and Teacher, Alma VillanuevaInterlude 7. Parenting while Researching? It Takes Support, Kid-Friendly Systems, and a Lot of Luck, Jacqueline M. Kory-WestlundPart III: The Labor of “Professionalization”Interlude 8. The Professoriate Is a Job, Sarah Welsh6. Scholar-Selves in the Managerial University: The Hidden Labor of Disciplinary Identity Formation in the Doctoral Journey, Adam HaleyInterlude 9. Ethically Honoring Graduate Student Expertise through Joy Projects Conclusion: The Future of the Neo-Confederate Museum, Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday and Allison Hutchison7. Chinese Doctoral Students’ Perceptions of Employability in the United States: cultivating Preparedness for a Challenging World, Xueshuang Wang, Weiyan Xiong, and Huiyuan YePart IV: Organizing LaborInterlude 10. Paying to Teach: A Profile of California State University System English Department Graduate Teaching Associate Programs, Martha Althea Webber8. “Fees Are Wage Theft”: Graduate Labor Unions Confronting the Neoliberal University, Jonathan IsaacInterlude 11. A How-To guide for Combating the Invisibility of Graduate Student Parents, Alex Hanson9. “We’ll Be Taking This with Us”: Relationality and Idealism in Three Graduate Student Locals, Anicca CoxAfterword: Striking for a Safer Campus Community, Kalena Thomhave and Matt SehrsweeneyAbout the ContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Tessa Brown is an entrepreneur and was previously a lecturer in the Program on Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University.