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"In Hidden Academics, Indhu Rajagopal examines the multiple ways in which contract faculty have emerged as an underclass in academia. She explores the identity of the part-time faculty, the nature of their work, and their feelings about their status within the university. Central to these discu...

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Main Author: Rajagopal, Indhu, 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Changing Times and Changing Mission'
  • The Contract Faculty
  • Permanent 'Temps' and Surplus Value
  • Hidden Academics
  • Invisible Women
  • Contemporaries and Classics: Segmented Interests
  • Fragmented Academe
  • Conflicts That Divide: Full-Timers versus Part-Timers
  • Interests That Diverge: Administrators versus Part-Timers
  • The Emergence of an Academic Underclass
  • 'Sweated Labour'
  • Epilogue: IvoryTower, Inc.?
  • Survey and Methodology.