How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-wage Nation (Cultural Front)

by Cary Nelson (Author), Marc Bousquet (Author), Cary Nelson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $37.98

  Exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education - a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages. This title assesses the costs of higher education's corporatization on faculty and students at various levels.

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $111.89

  Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees - including faculty - really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy. This title exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education - a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages.