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How to organize contingent academic workers

I attended a conference in Chicago last year run by COCAL, the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor – the increasing reliance on contingent faculty (that is, those without tenure) is worrying in itself, particularly for those of us planning to work in academia, but is also part of the corporatization of the academy. Now Joe Berry of COCAL has released a book that he describes as being about organizing contingent (non tenure track, precarious, adjunct, temporary, etc.) college and university faculty. Check it out….