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The Adjunct Underclass: How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission
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Childress, Herb – University of Chicago Press, 2019
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Institutional Mission, Adjunct Faculty, Educational Change
Job Security and Social Stability. The Impact of Mass Unemployment on Expectations of Work.
Ransome, Paul – 1995
The question of whether recent changes in the labor market will likely have an adverse effect on people's expectations of work and their willingness to participate in the labor process was examined in a study of the impact of mass unemployment on expectations of work and productivity. Data regarding employment/unemployment and productivity in the…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries, Job Layoff
Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market.
Bernhardt, Annette; Morris, Martina; Handcock, Mark S.; Scott, Marc A. – 2001
The changes in career development and upward mobility in response to recent changes in the U.S. labor market were examined in a study that included an analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Analysis of the data, which covered the period 1966-1994, established that the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Coordination, Definitions