Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-8476-9670-3 • Hardback • March 2003 • $137.00 • (£105.00)
978-0-8476-9671-0 • Paperback • March 2003 • $46.00 • (£35.00)
Judith Wagner DeCew is professor of philosophy at Clark University. She is the author of In Pursuit of Privacy: Law, Ethics and the Rise of Technology (1997) and co-editor of Theory and Practice (1996).
Part 1 PART I: Commentary
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Faculty Unions: Background and History
Chapter 4 Arguments For and Against Faculty Unions, and The Problem of Legitimacy
Chapter 5 The Yeshiva Decision and Unions at Private Institutions
Chapter 6 Major Effects of Faculty Unionization
Chapter 7 Unionization Among Part-Time Faculty
Chapter 8 Graduate Student Unions
Chapter 9 Unionization for Undergraduate RAs: One Case Study
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Part 11 PART II: Selected Readings
Part 12 Section I: Faculty Unions and Academic Politics
Chapter 13 Professors, Unions, and American Higher Education: "Concluding Observations"
Chapter 14 Academic Politics: "Faculty Unions and the Academic Perception"
Chapter 15 "Restoring Sanity to an Academic World Gone Mad"
Chapter 16 "Are Unions Good for Professors?"
Part 17 Section II: Faculty Unions and the Legal Landscape
Chapter 18 "Collective Bargaining and the Professoriate: What the Law Says"
Chapter 19 "The Yeshiva Faculty Union: Tales Told Out of School"
Part 20 Section III: Unionization and Part-Time Faculty
Chapter 21 "To Many Adjuncts, Academic Freedom is a Myth: As the ranks of part-timers swell, they lament how easily colleges can dump them"
Chapter 22 "The AAUP Organizes Part-Time Faculty: An Experiment in Community Responsibility Suggests that Part- and Full-Time Faculty Can Enrich Another's Professional Lives"
Part 24 Selected Bibliography
Unionization in the Academy is elegantly written, well researched, and carefully reasoned in its responses to questions of faculty unionization. Supplemented by a collection of engaging essays by insightful contributors, DeCew's balanced treatment displays a deep appreciation for both the ideals and the realities of higher education. This excellent book will greatly benefit faculty, administrators, student leaders, trustees, legislators, and anyone else trying to understand the difficult but very important topic of unionization in the academic world.
— Peter J. Markie, University of Missouri
This book is essential reading for everyone in the academy-from student to president.
— Jennifer Rubenstein, University of Chicago; Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
This book is highly readable, very well-balanced, and grounded in the literature of so many fields; a really fresh look at an important topic at the frontiers of unionism. Unionization in the Academy could make a wonderful reading for the students—a real eye-opener for those just entering universities. I could also see it used in my undergraduate and graduate industrial relations courses to expand on the theories and factual information we discuss in class.
— Gary Chaison, Clark University