Anon. I looked at everyone sitting around me. ‘Slavetrading’? …Nobody reacted.
MB. But you kept working there.
Anon. I had no choice. We needed the money.
Next I’ll feature Melanie Hubbard, a Columbia Ph.D. with articles, an NEH fellowship, and a book contract who has never been interviewed for a tenure track job while serving on full-time contingent appointments for 10 years.
After that, a four-parter with members of GSOC-UAW.
Recently:
- Higher Ed Inspires Labor “Videos of the Year”
- Baddest of the Bad
- Learning to Remember: After March 4
- Scientific American: Academic ‘Labor Market Gone Seriously Awry’
- MLA Confidential, Part 1
- Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered
- Kindle or Netbook?
- Occupy the AHA!
- History “Job Czar” Shuts Down Phd Production (PhD “Oversupply” Continues For Two Decades)
- Who’s A Historian to the AHA?
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This acccount is par for the adjunct course (though I think CFA’s estimate is just 15 seconds). Not only are part-time faculty expected to live on the low salaries, high uncertainty, and pervasive disrespect so well described in this video, they’re expected to empathize with superiors like this supervisor with the thoughtless and doubly (triply? more?) insensitive analogy. She probably thought she was being empathetic herself, in the wry way academic “superiors” can come to see as one of their few remaining perks.