“Wal-mart workers know they’re being had,” Michelle Masse says. “Academics don’t.”
In part 2 of our interview, she argues that the call to service in higher education has been a vector for cynical exploitation by administrations, but also for willing submission to exploitative demands. This is especially the case for women faculty, but also for men in feminized sectors, such as the humanities. Massé is co-editor with Katie Hogan of the SUNY collection forthcoming in 2009, Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces.
Over at AFT’s FACE talk, see Craig Smith’s very smart update on the recent partner-hiring discussion sparked by Adjunct Whore’s successful negotiation of a very modestly enlightened policy at her institution. Also see Historiann’s discussion of the failed “pipeline” theory of progress toward gender equity. And many thanks to Chuck Tryon for his kind review of How The University Works, as well as to John Protevi for his generous mention of the Masse interviews.
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