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London : Pluto Press, 2021.

1 online resource (321 pages)

ISBN 9780745345543 (electronic bk.)

ISBN !9780745345529 (chyb.)

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Print version: Berry, Joe Power Despite Precarity London : Pluto Press,c2021 ISBN 9780745345529

Cover -- Contents -- Photographs -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part I: The Case of the Lecturers in the CSU System -- 1. Student Strikes and Union Battles -- 2. Layoffs and Hard Years for Organizing -- 3. Revolution in the Union -- 4. "They Have Nothing to Teach Us" -- Part II: Higher Ed Was Never a Level Terrain of Struggle -- 5. Four Transitions and How Casualization Served Managers -- Part III: What We Want and What the CFA Got -- 6. Blue Sky #1: Organizing and Economics -- Blue Sky #2: Job Security, Academic Freedom and the Common Good -- 8. Beyond the Sausage-making: A Close Look at the CFA-CSU Contract -- Part IV: The Difficulty of Thinking Strategically -- 9. Strategies Emerging from Practice -- 10. The Contingent Faculty Movement as a Social Movement -- Part V: Seven Troublesome Questions -- 11. What Gets People Moving? -- 12. Who is the Enemy? Who are Our Allies? -- 13. What is "Professionalism" for Us? -- 14. How Does It Feel? -- 15. "Is this legal?" -- 16. What About Leftists? -- 17. How Do We Deal With Union Politics? -- Part VI: Using the Power We Have -- 18. Hopes and Dangers -- Essential Terms -- John Hess: A Life in the Movement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A key organizing tool for casualized university faculty from longtime movement activists..

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