• Parity Pay or Equal Pay?

    “Pay parity” is a term perennially associated with part-time faculty in a two-tiered workplace, not part-time workers in other professions paid on the same basis as full-time workers, such as part-time engineers, physicians, retail cashiers, or K-12 teachers. The “parity pay” bill, AB-1752...

     
  • Why Don’t All the Contingent Professors Strike or Just Quit?

    Three decades ago part-time college professors were paid at a much lower rate than their full-time, tenure-track counterparts, had artificial caps imposed on their workload limits, received few benefits. . .

     
  • Power Despite Precarity

    Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education “A key organizing tool for casualized university faculty from longtime movement activists” Independent Radical Publishing Overview Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At […]