Description
Contingent Academic Labor is a concise guide that offers higher education professionals a way to measure the degree of equality taking place in work environments for non-tenure track faculty across institutional settings. It frames the relevant issues and examines the nationwide situation facing contingent faculty across the professional landscape. The goal is to review contingent faculty treatment, and offer a standardized way to identify both equitable and unjust practices that impact adjunct faculty and their students by extension.The main feature of this guide is The Contingent Labor Conditions Score, a tool to help evaluate current labor practices that impact adjuncts in both positive and negative ways. The report card measures 3 areas of labor conditions:*Material Equity: Pay, job security and benefits*Professional Equity: Opportunities for advancement, professional development, academic freedom, sense of professional inclusion, and job satisfaction*Social Equity: Gender and race parity between contingent and non-contingent faculty in proportion to the population servedThis book will be useful for administrators and labor organizers alike in assessing the degree of exploitation, or empowerment, in their own institution. The Contingent Labor Conditions Score, as a standardized tool, will serve audiences on both sides of the discussion in creating positive steps forward, improving not only contingent faculty working conditions, but ultimately improving student outcomes.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I. Contingent Academic Labor in Broader Contexts 1. Contingent Faculty amid National Labor Trends 2. The Influence of Contingent Faculty on Student Outcomes 3. The “Cooling-Out Function” on Contingent Faculty Part II. Illustrating the Range of Work Conditions 4. Material Equity. Pay Parity, Job Security, and Benefits 5. Professional Equity. Opportunities for Development and Advancement 6. Social Equity. Faculty Diversity and Inclusivity by Race and Gender Part III. The Contingent Labor Conditions Scorecard 7. Introducing the Contingent Labor Conditions (CLC. Scorecard 8. Calculating the Contingent Labor Conditions (CLC. Scorecard Conclusion References Appendix. Contingent Labor Conditions (CLC. Scorecard Blank Forms
