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Peer reviewedRhoades, Gary; Rhoads, Robert A. – Review of Higher Education, 2003
Drew on extensive archives from 10 graduate employee unions' Web sites to examine their publicly presented identities (marginalized workers and future professionals), ideologies (traditional and professional unionism with little focus on social justice), and strategies (disruptive protest and professional politics locally). (EV)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Ideology
Peer reviewedRhoads, Robert A.; Rhoades, Gary – Journal of Higher Education, 2005
This qualitative study of graduate employee unionization seeks to explore the critique graduate student organizers have of the contemporary academy. The number of unionized graduate employees has increased by 175% since 1990; close to 40,000 graduate employees are now unionized. Data were collected using a multisite case study approach, a method…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Collective Bargaining, Graduate Students, Unions
