{"product_id":"9780822396253","title":"TEST1 Chalk Lines: The Politics of Work in the Managed University","description":"The increasing corporatization of education has served to expose the university as a business—and one with a highly stratified division of labor. In \u003ci\u003eChalk Lines\u003c\/i\u003e editor Randy Martin presents twelve essays that confront current challenges facing the academic workforce in U.S. colleges and universities and demonstrate how, like chalk lines, divisions between employees may be creatively redrawn.\u003cbr\u003e\tWhile tracing the socioeconomic conditions that have led to the present labor situation on campuses, the contributors consider such topics as the political implications of managerialism and the conceptual status of academic labor.\u003cbr\u003eThey examine the trend toward restructuring and downsizing, the particular plight of the adjunct professor, the growing emphasis on vocational training in the classroom, and union organizing among university faculty, staff, and graduate students. Placing such issues within the context of the history of labor movements as well as governmental initiatives to train a workforce capable of competing in the global economy, \u003ci\u003eChalk Lines\u003c\/i\u003e explores how universities have attempted to remake themselves in the image of the corporate sector. Originally published as an issue of \u003ci\u003eSocial Text\u003c\/i\u003e, this expanded volume, which includes four new essays, offers a broad view of academic labor in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\tWith its important, timely contribution to debates concerning the future of higher education, \u003ci\u003eChalk Lines\u003c\/i\u003e will interest a wide array of academics, administrators, policymakers, and others invested in the state—and fate—of academia.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors.  Stanley Aronowitz, Jan Currie, Zelda F. Gamson, Emily Hacker, Stefano Harney, Randy Martin, Bart Meyers, David Montgomery, Frederick Moten, Christopher Newfield, Gary Rhoades, Sheila Slaughter, Jeremy Smith, Vincent Tirelli, William Vaughn, Lesley Vidovich, Ira Yankwitt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110754500848,"sku":"9780822396253","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822396253_p0.jpg?v=1763745482","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822396253","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}