Book Review: How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi’s much-anticipated second book, How to Be An Antiracist, hit shelves across the world last month.
Category: 2019
The SaveGradEd Movement at Ohio State: Graduate Student Labor Still Needs Saving
“In early November 2017 the Republican-led House of Representatives released their version of what would become the Tax and Job Acts—an unprecedented give away to the wealthiest Americans. A provision in the bill would have included the ‘taxing’ of graduate student tuition waivers. As a result, graduate students could have owed the government thousands of dollars in ‘taxes,’ despite the majority of graduate students earning less than $20,000 a year. “
Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike
The failures of the Hormel plant strike in 1985-86 captured the U.S. public imagination, setting a defeatist tone for the labor movement. But what might the labor movement still learn from the successes of the 1984-85 Yale strike of mostly-women clerical and technical workers?
The History Workshop, Campus Politics, and Our Contemporary Struggles for Equality
“In effect, the History Workshop Journal editors were reviving a longer legacy of solidarity between atomized elements of the working class; between university students and teachers, historians and the public, and campus workers and trade unions. Throughout the twentieth century, these groups allied in the face of existential threats.”
Racism is a Labor Issue: The UNC TA Strike and Black-led Movements Against White Supremacy
We write this essay as strike supporters to encourage others in nominally secure positions, and especially those in tenured and other protected positions, to utilize their positions in the fight against racism and fascism at the university.
Graduate Worker Organizing is Scholarly Praxis
For many inside and outside of academia the notion that graduate students are indeed workers is not readily clear. In large part, I came to see this as mirrored through the reproduction of academia’s lack of emphasis on scholarly praxis.
Students as Workers and the 2019 Québec Student Strike
On how the 2019 Québec Student Strike has made it possible for a new generation to conceive of study itself as a form of intellectual labor deserving of wages and suitable working conditions.
Strikes in Australian Higher Education: Stories From the Field
This article adopts critical auto-ethnography to examine how Australian university unions and unionists have developed strategies for campus activism. The enablers and restraints on union activism in Australian higher education are discussed using the device of vignettes of a unionist active in the sector from the 1980’s onwards, and an agenda for the future raised.
Learning to Speak Out as an Outsider: The Internationalization of the Academic Workforce in Japan
How contingent faculty can negotiate their in-between status to forge lasting and impactful solidarities
A Labor Movement Recognized, Felt and Real: Miami Dade College and the Fight to Win
“… in March 2019, Miami Dade College joined SEIU Faculty Forward’s ranks as the largest adjunct union in Florida and the largest single-school adjunct union in the country.”
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