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...Succeed with caution: rethinking academic culture at RPI, PSU, and CSU / Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray -- Resisting corporatization of the university / Richard Daniels, with Lisa Blasch and Peter Caster -- The myth of the liberal campus / Michael Parenti -- ... -- Faculty workers: tenure on the corporate assembly line / Sonya Huber -- Professors going pro: the commercialization of teaching, research, and service / Sheila Slaughter and Larry Leslie -- Give me an $: moonlighting in the company boardroom / Kevin Kniffin -- ... -- Penn and Inc.: incorporating the University of Pennsylvania / Matthew Ruben -- Wiring the world: Ameritech's monopoly on the virtual classroom / Todd A. Price -- ... -- Take back the university: only unions can save academic life / Henry Steck and Michael Zweig -- Perils of the knowledge industry: how a faculty union blocked an unfriendly takeover / Jeff Lustig -- ... -- Keep your room clean: how to uncover corporate and military influence on your campus / John Peck -- Pocket change or social change? University investment responsibility and activism / Seth Newton -- Take the pledge: a promise of social and environmental responsibility / Neil J. Wollman -- Afterword. Business school: an interview with Noam Chomsky / Geoffry D. White.-- from WorldCat description

Presents data on trends in the academic job market, placement rates for PhDs inside and outside the academy, and levels of job satisfaction for those with doctorates. Includes samples of information available from the Modern Language Association and a bibliography of print and online publications that they recommend for planning a career in language and literature.--ERIC abstract

Surveys the degree to which the managerial subjectivity predominates in composition studies, distorting the field's understanding of "materialism" and "critique" to the point that it consistently attempts to offer "solutions" to its "labor problem" without accounting for the historical reality of organized academic labor. Claims that "change" in composition depends primarily upon the organized voice and collective action of composition labor.--ERIC abstract

Published data and previous research on law faculty were analyzed to examine whether women advance more slowly than men in the law academic labor market. Women moved more slowly than men across the boundary between secondary and primary jobs, influenced by a mixture of factors, including family and geographic constraints, social capital, employment origins, and opportunity structures in the academic labor market.--ERIC abstract

Examines issues of career movement and change between library and archival fields and from small colleges to large universities. Topics include professional education and training; initial career planning and placement; continuing education; scouting and mentoring; job market conditions; work experience and personal skills; profesional involvement; and professional association self-interest.--ERIC abstract

Investigated three explanations for persisting differences in women's faculty representation across science fields even after adjusting for women's variable representation among doctoral recipients: labor market factors, institutional explanations, and gender role explanations. After finding that none account fully for faculty gender composition, discusses how they may reflect differences in academic "cultures."--ERIC abstract

Examines 900 job announcements published in four journals in 1996 and uses content analysis to compare requirements and benefits among various positions in academic libraries. Compares results with an earlier study from 1988, including levels of computer skills, foreign language requirements, previous work experience, educational requirements, and minimum salary offered.--ERIC abstract

Many faculty members today are employed as temporary, seasonal, and part-time workers. Can academic freedom and governance survive in a sweatshop university?--from article

This article examines structural questions pertaining to academic employment. What do empirical findings from recent studies say about the contours of academic work? Next, what is the employment status of faculty, especially within community colleges? The 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF) helps to answer this question, by providing sector-level baseline survey data.--from chapter

The theory of academic capitalism -- The policy climate for academic capitalism -- Patent policies: legislative change and commercial expansion -- Patent policies play out: student and faculty life -- Copyright: core functions -- Copyrights play out: commodifying the core academic function -- Academic capitalism at the department level -- Academic capitalism at the administrative level -- Networks of power: boards of trustees and presidents -- Sports r? us: contracts, trademarks, and logos -- Undergraduate students and educational markets -- The academic capitalist knowledge/ learning regime.--WorldCat description