Labor Issues in Writing Studies Bibliography
Prefatory Note
The following working bibliography covers issues of labor within Writing Studies. This includes:
Adjuncts and adjunctification
Unionization of faculty
Graduate students
Workload and compensation issues
Writing Program Administration and faculty labor
Labor issues in the Two-Year College
Job market
Additions to this bibliography are welcome and encouraged. The information contained below is open to all students and scholars.
Books & Chapters
Adler-Kassner, Linda. The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers. University Press of Colorado, 2008.
Bartholomae, David. "Postscript: The Profession." Writing on the Margins. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2005, pp. 372-380.
Benko, Debra A. "Climbing a Mountain: An Adjunct Steering Committee Brings Change." Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education. pp. 245-260. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED447500.pdf#page=256
Berlin, James A. Rhetorics, poetics, and cultures: Refiguring college English studies. Parlor Press, 2003.
Berube, Michael. The employment of English: Theory, jobs, and the future of literary studies. New York: New York University, 1998.
Bousquet, Marc. How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. With a preface by Cary Nelson. New York University Press, 2008.
Bousquet, Marc, Tony Scott, Leo Parascondola, eds. Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Work in the Managed University. Southern Illinois UP, 2004.
Nicole I. Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Rebecca Jackson. The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors. Boulder, CO: Utah State University Press, 2016.
Colby, Richard and Rebekah Shultz Colby. "Real Faculty But Not: The Full-time, Non-tenure-track Position as Contingent Labor." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 57-70.
Connors, Robert. "Rhetoric in the Modern University: The Creation of an Underclass." The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. Eds. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1991, pp. 55·84.
Crowley, Sharon. "How the Professional Lives of WPAs Would Change If FYC Were Elective." The Writing Program Administrator’s Handbook: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Change and Practice, 2002, pp. 219-32.
---. Composition in the university: Historical and polemical essays. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Downing, David B. “Global Capitalism, Scientific Management, and Disciplinary English.” Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University. Ed. Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004. 57–71.
Fels, Dawn. "The Risks of Contingent Writing Center Directorships." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 119-132.
Fedukovich, Casie, Susan Miller-Cochran, Brent Simoneaux, and Robin Snead. “A State of Permanent Contingency: Writing Programs, Hiring Practices, and a Persistent Breach of Ethics.” Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition, edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton. Parlor Press, 2017, pp. 130-151.
Gaillet, Lynee Lewis and Letizia Guglielmo, eds. Contingent Faculty Publishing in Community: Case Studies for Successful Collaborations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 56-74.
Goodburn, Amy M., Donna LeCourt, Carrie Leverenz. Rewriting Success in Rhetoric and Composition Careers. Anderson, S.C.: Parlor Press, 2013.
Gunner, Jeanne. "The fate of the Wyoming resolution: A history of professional seduction." Writing ourselves into the story: Unheard voices from composition studies (1993): pp. 107-22.
Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris. Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. Logan: Utah State UP, 2012.
Harris, Joseph. "Undisciplined writing." Delivering Composition. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/ Cook. 2006, pp. 155-167. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/7425/Harris_Undisciplined.pdf?sequence=1
Kahn, Seth. "The Problem of Speaking for Adjuncts." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 259-270.
Kahn, Seth, and JongHwa Lee, eds. Activism and rhetoric: Theories and contexts for political engagement. Routledge, 2010.
Kahn, Seth, William B. Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek. Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/contingency/
---. "Introduction: Paths Toward Solidarity." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 3-12.
Kynard, Carmen. Vernacular insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies. SUNY Press, 2013.
LaFrance, Michelle and Anicca Cox. "Brutal(ist) Meditations: Space and Labor-Movement in a Writing Program." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 279-301.
Lalicker, William B. and Amy Lynch-Biniek. "Contingency, Solidarity, and Community Building: Principles for Converting Contingent to Tenure Track." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 91-102.
McBeth, Mark and Tim McCormack. "An Apologia and a Way Forward: In Defense of the Lecturer Line in Writing Programs." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 41-56.
McClure, Randall, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton. Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition. Parlor Press, 2017.
Marshall, Margaret. Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching. SIU Press, 2003.
Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
Murphy, Michael. "Head to Head with edX?: Toward a New Rhetoric for Academic Labor." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 71-90.
Naydan, Liliana M. “Transitioning from Contingent to Tenure-Track Faculty Status As a WPA: Working Toward Solidarity and Academic Labor Justice through Hybridity.” WPAs in Transition. Ed. Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, and Brian Ray. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2018. 284-296.
---. “Academic Classism and Writing Center Worker Identity.” Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles. Ed. Harry Denny, Robert Mundy, Liliana M. Naydan, Anna Sicari, and Richard Séverè. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, Forthcoming 2018.
Nier-Weber, Dani. "The Other Invisible Hand: Adjunct Labor and Economies of the Writing Center." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition, Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 103-119.
O’Neill, Peggy, Angela Crow, and Larry W. Burton, eds. A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies. Logan: Utah State UP, 2002.
Owens, Derek. Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2001. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED458601.pdf
Ratcliffe, Krista and Rebecca Rickly. Performing Feminism and Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. NJ: Hampton Press, 2010.
Reid, Gwendolynne, Bridget Kozlow, Susan Miller-Cochran, and Chris Tonelli. “Legal Tender or Counterfeit Currency: Organizing a Conference Off the Tenure-Track.” In Contingent Faculty Publishing in Community: Case Studies for Successful Collaborations. Eds. Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Letizia Guglielmo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 56-74.
Schell, Eileen E. Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction. Boynton/Cook Publishers, Portsmouth, N.H, 1998.
---. “Part-Time/Adjunct Issues: Working toward Change.” The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart C. Brown and Theresa Enos. New York: Routledge, 2002.
---."The New Faculty Majority In Writing Programs: Organizing For Change." Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017.
Schell, Eileen, and Patricia L. Stock, eds. Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000.
Schuster, Charles. "The Politics of Promotion." The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. Eds. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1991, pp. 85·96.
Scott, Tony. Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2009.
Strickland, Donna. The Managerial Unconscious in the History of Composition Studies. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2011.
Tillery, Denise, and Ed Nagelhout (Eds). The New Normal: Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in the Age of Austerity. NY: Routledge, 2017.
Trimbur, John. “Writing Instruction and the Politics of Professionalization.” Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change. Eds. Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. 133–45.
Nancy Welch and Tony Scott (Eds.). Composition in the Age of Austerity. Logan: Utah State UP, 2016.
Articles
Abraham, Matthew, and Elizabeth Kalbfleisch. "The IWP in an Age of Financial Austerity." College Composition and Communication 68.1 (2016): 173-9.
Adamowicz, Catherine. "On adjunct labor and community colleges." Academe, vol. 93, no. 6, 2007, pp. 24-27.
Allan, Elizabeth. "The Triple-Voiced Adjunct: Finding a Middle Space while Teaching Writing on the Road." Teaching English in the Two Year College, vol. 34, no. 3, 2007, pp. A2.
Anonymous/Joy Klein. “Pledge-a-Brick: A Farewell to Adjunct Teaching.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 2003, pp. 61–77.
Arnold, Lisa, Laura Brady, Maggie Christensen, Joanne Baird Giordano, Holly Hassel, Ed Nagelhout, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran, Julie Staggers, Sue Doe, and Mike Palmquist. "Forum on the Profession." College English 73, no. 4 (2011): 409-427.
Baker, Anthony D. "Abolish or Perish? Managed Labor in Composition: A Roundtable with Sharon Crowley." Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 7 (2013). http://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/article/viewFile/184517/184152
Bataille, Robert R. “Hiring Composition Specialists.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 4.1 (Fall 1980): 17–21.
Behm, Nicholas. "A Brief Comparison of Teaching Assistantship and Adjunct Faculty Positions." FORUM: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, vol. 12, no. 1, 2008. http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Groups/CCCC/Forum/Fall2008FORUM.pdf#page=5
Bishop, Wendy. "Another Kind of Vote: Enfranchising the Knowledge(s) of Teachers." Presentation to the 1993 MLA Convention, 1993. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED364885.pdf
Bizzaro, Resa Crane. "Making places as teacher-scholars in composition studies: Comparing transition narratives." College Composition and Communication (2002): 487-506.
Boerckel, Denise, and Art Young. "Looking Left, Then Right: Administering the Wyoming Resolution." Presentation at the 1990 Speech Communication Assoc. (1990). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED327867.pdf
Bousquet, Marc. "The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies." Pedagogy, vol. 10, no. 1, 2010, pp. 117-129.
---. "White-Collar Proletariat: The Case of Becky Meadows." JAC, vol. 27, no. 1/2, 2007, pp. 303-329.
---. “Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers.” minnesota review, vol. 58–60, 2003, pp. 231-239.
---. "Education, Solidarity, and Revolt: A Conversation with Richard Ohmann." Workplace, vol. 5, no. 2, July 2003. http:www.workplace-gsc.com.
---. "A Discipline Where Only Management Gets Tenure?" JAC, vol. 22, no. 4, Fall 2002, pp. 917-925.
---. "Composition as Management Science: Toward a University without a WPA." JAC, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 493-526.
Brannon, Lil. "M [other]: Lives on the Outside." Written Communication 10.3 (1993): 457-465.
Brier, Stephen. "Why the History of CUNY Matters: Using the CUNY Digital History Archive to Teach CUNY's Past." Radical Teacher, vol.108, 2017, pp. 28-35.
Brooks, Kevin. "Composition's abolitionist debate: A tool for change." Composition Studies 30.2 (2002): 27-41.
Brueggemann, Brenda J., and Rachel Gramer. "No Day at the Beach: Women 'Making it' in Academia." College English, vol. 79, no. 3, 2017, pp. 297-309. (book review)
CCCC Position Statement on Faculty Work in Community-Based Settings. "Conference on College Composition and Communication: April 2016 (replaces the CCCC Position Statement on Faculty Work in Community-Based Settings, November 2014)." Community Literacy Journal, vol. 11 no. 1, 2016, pp. 164-170.
CCCC Committee on Part-Time/Adjunct Issues. "Report on the Coalition on the Academic Workforce/CCCC Survey of Faculty in Freestanding Writing Programs for Fall 1999." College Composition and Communication (2001): 336-348.
CCCC History of Labor in Writing Postsecondary Writing. http://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/labor/history
Carliner, Saul. "The Three Approaches to Professionalization in Technical Communication", Technical Communication, vol. 59, no. 1, 2012, pp. 49-65.
Carpini, Dominic Delli. "'Must Be Willing to Teach Composition': The Rhetoric and Practices of the Small College Job Search." Composition Studies 32.2 (2004): 31-52. https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/uc/journals/composition-studies/docs/backissues/32-2/Carpini.pdf
Cassebaum, Anne. "A Comment on" The Wyoming Conference Resolution Opposing Unfair Salaries and Working Conditions for Post-Secondary Teachers of Writing"." College English 51.6 (1989): 636-638.
Connors, Robert J. "Overwork/Underpay: Labor and Status of Composition Teachers since 1880." Rhetoric Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 1990, pp. 108-126.
Cox, Anicca, Timothy R. Dougherty, Seth Kahn, Michelle LaFrance, and Amy Lynch-Biniek. "The Indianapolis Resolution: Responding to Twenty-First-Century Exigencies/Political Economies of Composition Labor." College Composition and Communication, vol. 68, no. 1, 2016: 38-67.
Cox, Anicca. "Collaboration and Resistance: Academic Freedom and Non-Tenured Labor." FORUM: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, vol. 22, no. 1, Fall 2018, A4-A13.
Crain, Jeanie C. "A Response to Anne Cassebaum's" A Comment on'The Wyoming Resolution Opposing Unfair Salaries and Working Conditions for Post-Secondary Teachers of Writing'"(CE, October 1989)." College English 52.4 (1990): 469-473.
Crowley, Sharon. "Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education." JAC 20.2 (2000): 457-461.
---. "Exerpt from" Early concerns of CCCC"." College Composition and Communication 50.1 (1998): A12.
---. "Composition's ethic of service, the universal requirement, and the discourse of student need." JAC (1995): 227-239. http://jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol15.2/crowley-compositions.pdf
Cucciarre, Christine, Michael McCamley, and Joseph Harris. "Symposium: Off Track and On: Valuing the Intellectual Work of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty." College English 77.1 (2014): 55.
Cucciarre, Christine. "Happily and Shamefully Non-Tenure-Track: Hypocrisy in Academic Labor." College English 77.1 (2014): 55-63.
Davies, Laura J. "Taking the Long View: Investigating the History of a Writing Program's Teacher Evaluation System." WPA: Writing Program Administration-Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators 37.1 (2013).
Delaney, Laurie. "From the Chair." College Composition and Communication 56.1 (2004): A2.
Doe, Sue, Natalie Barnes, David Bowen, David Gilkey, Ginger Guardiola Smoak, Sarah Ryan, Kirk Sarell, Laura H. Thomas, Lucy J. Troup, and Mike Palmquist. "Discourse of the Firetenders: Considering Contingent Faculty through the Lens of Activity Theory." College English, vol. 73, no. 4, 2011, pp. 428-449.
Dorwick, Keith, Dene Grigar, John F. Barber, Tari Fanderclaid, Karen Howelle, Linda Jorn. "Looking elsewhere: career options other than the tenure-track teaching position for M.A.s and Ph.D.s in English." Computers and Composition, vol. 17, no. 1, 2000, pp. 69-95.
Durack, Katherine T. "Gender, technology, and the history of technical communication." Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 3, 1997, pp. 249-260.
Eagan, M. Kevin, and Audrey J. Jaeger. “Closing the Gate: Part-Time Faculty Instruction in Gatekeeper Courses and First-Year Persistence.” New Directions for Teaching and Learning, vol. 2008, no. 115, Fall 2008, pp. 39–53.
Edwards, Mike. "Economies of Writing, Without the Economics: Some Implications of Composition’s Economic Discourse as Represented in JAC 32.3–4." Rhetoric Review 33.3 (2014): 244-261. (links to Academia.edu)
English Council of the California State University System. "Principles regarding the Teaching of College Writing." College Composition and Communication 42.3 (1991): 365-367.
Ernster, Thomas J. "Restoring the Spirit of Academe." College Composition and Communication, vol. 51, no. 1, 1999, pp. A13.
Fedukovich, Casie. "WPA as tempered radical: Lessons from Occupy Wall Street." WPA: Writing Program Administration37.1 (2013).
Fels, Dawn, Gardner, Clint; Herb, Maggie M; Naydan, Liliana M. "Toward an Investigation into the Working Conditions of Non-Tenure Line, Contingent Writing Center Workers." College Composition and Communication, vol. 68, no. 1, 2016, A10-A16.
Fetterley, Judith. "Dreaming the Future of English." College English , vol. 61, no. 6, 1999, pp. 702-711. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/378951.pdf
Fitts, Karen, and William B. Lalicker. "Invisible hands: A manifesto to resolve institutional and curricular hierarchy in English studies." College English, vol. 66, no. 4, 2004, pp. 427-451.
Flachmann, Kim. "Terms and Conditions of Employment in the California State University." Presentation at the CCCC's ,1993. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED364893.pdf
Fulwiler, Megan, and Jennifer Marlow. "Making It Visible: Documenting Contingent Labor." College Composition and Communication 63.1 (2011): A6.
Geller, Anne Ellen, and Harry Denny. "Of ladybugs, low status, and loving the job: Writing center professionals navigating their careers." The Writing Center Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, pp. 96-129.
Gilfus, Jonna I. "The Spaces in-between: Independent Writing Programs as Sites of Collective Leadership." College English, vol. 79, no. 5, 2017, pp. 466.
Godley, Amanda and Trainor, Jennifer. "Discourses of Reform in Composition: Student Need and Labor Conditions as Useful Knowledge." College Composition and Communication, vol. 51, no. 3., 2000, pp. 481-84.
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Susan Kay Miller. "What is New about the" New Abolitionists": Continuities and Discontinuities in the Great Debate." Composition Studies 28.2 (2000): 85-112.
Goggin, Maureen Daly. "Critical Choices for the Future of the First-Year College Writing: What Are the Stakes of This Controversy for Instructors and Students." Presentation at the 1995 CCCCs in Washington DC, 1995. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED384055.pdf
Grabill, Jeffrey T. "On divides and interfaces: Access, class, and computers." Computers and Composition, vol. 20, no. 4, December 2003, pp. 455-472.
Gunner, Jeanne. "Among the Composition People: The WPA as English Department Agent." JAC, vol. 8, no. 1, 1998, pp. 153-165. http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol18.1/gunner-among.pdf
---. "Politicizing the Portland Resolution." Writing Program Administration, vol. 20, no. 3, 1997, pp. 23-30.
---. "Decentering the WPA." WPA: Writing Program Administration 18.2 (1994).
---. "The Status of Basic Writing Teachers: Do We Need a" Maryland Resolution"?." Journal of Basic Writing (1993): 57-63. https://wac.colostate.edu/jbw/v12n1/gunner.pdf
Haar, Catherine, Jill Feldkamp, Randy Smith, Kathy Winter, Jennie Trias, Therese Trotochaud, Hallie S. Lemon, and Lorena Stookey
"Redefining the Role of 'Permanent Temps': Proving Ourselves Professionals." Proceedings of a Roundtable Session at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (45th, Nashville, Tennessee, March 16-19, 1994)." (1994). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED371392.pdf
Hammill, Bobbi A. "Teaching and Parenting: Who are the Members of our Profession?" College Composition and Communication, vol. 59, no. 1, 2007, pp. 98-124.
Harris, Joseph. "Behind Blue Eyes: A Response to Marc Bousquet." JAC, vol. 22, 2002, pp. 892-99.
---. “Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Class Consciousness in Composition.” College Composition and Communication 52 (2000): 43–68.
Hasian, Marouf. “Rhetorical Studies and the Future of Postcolonial Theories and Practices.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 20, no. 1/2, 2001, pp. 22–28.
Heller, Janet Ruth, Trish Jenkins, Mahli Xuan Mechenbier, Marie Moeller, Sue Doe, and Mike Palmquist
"Forum on Organizing." College English 73.4 (2011): 450-465.
Hess, Micky. "A Nomad faculty: English professors negotiate self-representation in university Web space." Computers and Composition, vol. 19, no. 2, August 2002, pp. 171-189.
Holbrook, Sue E. "Women's Work: The Feminizing of Composition." Rhetoric Review, vol. 9, no. 2, 1991, pp. 201-229.
Horner, Bruce. "Redefining work and value for writing program administration." JAC, vol. 27, no. 1/2, 2007, pp. 163-184. http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol27.1-2/horner-redefining.pdf
Hunt, Maurice. "Preventing Burn-out in Teaching Assistants." Composition Studies, vol. 15 , no. 1, 1986, pp. 12-15.
Ianetta, Melissa. "Disciplinarity, Divorce, and the Displacement of Labor Issues: Rereading Histories of Composition and Literature." College Composition and Communication, vol. 62, no. 1, 2010, pp. 53-72.
Jensen, Darin L., and Christie Toth. "Unknown Knowns: The Past, Present, and Future of Graduate Preparation for Two-Year College English Faculty." College English 79.6 (2017).
Johnson, Sarah Z. "A Tale of Two Statements." Teaching English in the Two Year College, vol. 45, no. 1, 2017, pp. 20-28.
Kahn, Seth. "Towards an Ecology of Sustainable Labor in Writing Programs (and Other Places)." Writing Program Administration 39 (2015): 109-13.
---. "'Never Take More Than You Need': Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty and Contingent Labor Exploitation." FORUM: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring 2013, A12-A16.
Kannan, Vani, Ben Kuebrich, & Rodríguez, Yanira. "Unmasking Corporate-Military Infrastructure: Four Theses." Community Literacy Journal, vol. 11 no. 1, 2016, pp. 76-93.
Karper, Erin. "Make It Do or Do Without: Transitioning from a Tech-Heavy to a Tech-Light Institution: A Cautionary Tale." Computers and Composition, vol. 30, no. 1, March 2013, pp.16-23.
Kerschbaum, Stephanie L., Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Sushil K. Oswal, Amy Vidali, Susan Ghiaciuc, Margaret Price, Jay Dolmage, Craig A. Meyer, Brenda Brueggemann, and Ellen Samuels.
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Kerschbaum, Stephanie L. "Anecdotal Relations: On Orienting to Disability in the Composition Classroom." Composition Forum, vol. 32, 2015. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1072270.pdf
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---. "Access in the Academy." Academe 98.5 (2012): 37-40.
Kirby-Werner, Roberta J. "Letter to FORUM" College Composition and Communication 49.1 (1998): A10.
Klausman, Jeffrey. "The Two-Year College Writing Program and Academic Freedom: Labor, Scholarship, and Compassion." Teaching English in the Two Year College, vol. 45, no. 4, 2018, pp. 385-405.
Kolb, Katherine. "Adjuncts in Academe: No Place Called Home." Profession, 1997, pp. 93-103
Lalicker, William B. "Making the Wyoming Resolution a Reality: A 1992 Progress Report from Kentucky." Presentation at 1992 CCCCs, 1992. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343129.pdf
Lamos, Steve. "Toward Job Security for Teaching-Track Composition Faculty: Recognizing and Rewarding Affective Labor-in-Space." College English, vol. 78, no. 4, 2016, pp. 362-386.
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Leland, Bruce H. "Partners in the Process: Professionalism for Writing Instructors." Presentation at the 1991 CCCCs in Boston, 1991. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED331076.pdf
Lemon, Hallie S. "The Permanent Temps' Lament: Why Not Tenure Status?" Presentation at the 1993 CCCCs, 1993. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED356483.pdf
Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. "Composing in a global-local context: Careers, mobility, skills." College English, vol. 72, no. 2, 2009, pp. 113-133.
Lynch-Biniek, Amy. "Toward a Qualitative Study of Contingency and Teaching Practices." Teaching English in the Two Year College 39.3 (2012): A3.
McCamley, Michael. "Unclear, but Not Unclean: Resisting Familiar Binaries in Faculty Labor."College English, vol. 77, no. 1, 2014, pp. 63-69.
McCormack, Tim. "Boss of Me: When the Former Adjunct Runs the Writing Shop." Writing Program Administration, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 163.
McClelland, Ben W. “Part-Time Faculty in English Composition: A WPA Survey.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 5.1 (1981): 13–20.
McDonald, James C., and Eileen E. Schell. "The Spirit and Influence of the Wyoming Resolution: Looking Back to Look Forward." College English, vol. 73, no. 4, 2011, pp. 360-378.
McDonald, James C. "Louisiana and the Wyoming Resolution: A Survey of Writing Programs." Presentation at the 1992 CCCC's, 1992. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED357390.pdf
McLeod, Susan H., and Fred S. Schwarzbach. "What about the TAs? Making the Wyoming Resolution a Reality for Graduate Students." WPA: Writing Program Administration 17 (1993): 83-87.
Mayo, James. "The Love Song of an Adjunct: Reflections on Teaching Writing Part-Time and the Failure of Composition Theory." Teaching English in the Two Year College, vol. 34, no. 3, 2007, pp. A13.
Meloncon, Lisa, and Peter England. "The current status of contingent faculty in technical and professional communication." College English 73.4 (2011): 396-408.
Meloncon, Lisa, Peter England, and Alex Ilyasova. "A Portrait of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Technical and Professional Communication: Results of a Pilot Study." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, vol. 46, no. 2, 2016, pp. 206-235.
Mendenhall, Annie S."The Composition Specialist as Flexible Expert: Identity and Labor in the History of Composition." College English, vol. 77, no. 1, 2014, pp. 11-31.
Merrill, Robert, Thomas J. Farrell, Eileen E. Schell, Valerie Balester, Chris M. Anson, and Greta Gaard. "Symposium on the 1991" Progress Report from the CCCC Committee on Professional Standards"." College Composition and Communication 43, no. 2 (1992): 154-175.
Micciche, Laura R. "More than a Feeling: Disappointment and WPA work." College English, vol. 64, no .4, 2002, pp. 432-458. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3250746.pdf
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NCTE College Section Working Group on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty
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Dissertations
English and Writing Studies
Bartlett, Laura. The Rhetoric and Composition of the Corporate University: Literacy, Subjectivity, and Labor. University of Louisville, 2003.
Carter, Christopher Scott. Rhetoric and Resistance in the Corporate Academy. University of Louisville, 2004.
Clary-Lemon, Jennifer. The Rhetoric of Identity: Scholarly Journals and Activism as Sites of Change, 1939–2004. Arizona State University, 2006.
Dorfeld, Natalie Marie. Broke, Bohemian, and Burned Out: An in-Depth Analysis of the Adjunct Lifestyle. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Edwards, Elizabeth Sue. Developing an Economic Vocabulary in Composition Studies through Four Key Terms: Labor, Cost, Writing Construct, and Efficiency. Washington State University, 2015.
Eidson, Diana. Labor, Literacies, and Liberation: A Rhetorical Biography of Stetson Kennedy. Georgia State University, 2014.
Goggin, Maureen Daly. The Shaping of a Discipline: An Historical Study of the Authorizing Role of Professional Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 1950-1990. Carnegie Mellon University, 1994.
Mendenhall, Sarah S. Locating the Profession: Disciplinary Identities and Professional Spaces in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. The Ohio State University, 2013.
O'Grady, Helen M. Part -Time Practitioners: Deliberating the Contradictions. University of Rhode Island, 1999.
Regan, Alison Elizabeth. "Promises, Problems, and Politics: The History of Rhetoric, English Studies, and Writing Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, 1883-1994." The University of Texas at Austin, 1996.
"Chapter 3 focuses on the 1984-85 event known as the "decomposition of English," "the lecturer crisis," or the "literature/rhetoric split," in which a four-year writing sequence was dismantled and forty-seven lecturers who had been working full-time in the Department of English permanently lost their jobs."
Sidey, Mark Edward. WPAs and adjuncts: What we can learn from social identity & expertise theories. Purdue University, 2012.
In other fields
Christensen, Chad. Conflicting motivations and a complex professional environment: The lived experiences of adjunct faculty at a community college. Dissertation (Educational Leadership). Indiana University, 2012.
Fisher, Deena K. The proper care and feeding of adjunct faculty. A qualitative multi-site case study: The integration of part -time adjunct faculty within the hierarchical organization of higher education. Dissertation (Education). Oklahoma State University, 2005.
Holmes, Susan A. The invisible majority: Perceptions of community college adjunct faculty. Dissertation (Education). Walden University, 2007.
Pagnucco, Nicholas D. Qualifying Adjuncts Academic Worth and the Justification of Adjunct Work. (Sociology). State University of New York at Albany, 2012.
Ricci, Amy L. The Role of Institutional Support in Leading to Job Satisfaction and Limiting Turnover Intentions of Experienced Online Adjunct Faculty in Business-Related Disciplines. Dissertation (Education). Northeastern University, 2016.
Uluave, Luana. For profit and delight: Writing instructors and instruction at for -profit colleges and universities. Dissertation. University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007.
Readings from Outside the Field
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Baker, Peter, Roger I. Simon, and Jeffrey J. Williams. Beyond the corporate university: Culture and pedagogy in the new millennium. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Baringer, Sandra. "Repositioning the Ladder: A Cautionary Tale about Outsourcing." Minnesota Review, vol. 63, 2005, pp. 195,202
Bataille, Georges. Consumption. Vol. 1 of The Accursed Share. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Zone Books, 1991.
Bérubé, Michael. "How We Got Here." PMLA, vol. 128, no. 3, 2013, pp. 530-541. (2013 MLA Presidential Address)
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Bettinger, Eric P., and Bridget Terry Long
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Blackburn, Robert T., and Janet H. Lawrence. Faculty at work: Motivation, expectation, satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Bousquet, Marc. "The" informal economy" of the information university." Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, vol. 9, 2013. http://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/article/viewFile/184043/183870
---. "'We are Teachers, Hear Us Roar': Contingent Faculty Author an Activist Culture." Cinema Journal, vol. 45, no. 4, Summer 2006, pp. 97-107.
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---. "The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible." Social Text, vol. 20, no. 1, 2002, pp. 81-104.
Brauer, Stephen. "Critical Educators and Active Citizens: Pedagogy and Critical Praxis." American Literature, vol. 89, no. 2, 2017, pp. 379-395.
Caesar, Terry. "The specter of collegiality." symplokē 13.1/2 (2005): 7-17.
Caplan, Paula J. Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World. Buffalo: U of Toronto P, 1992.
Carpenter, Bennett, Laura Goldblatt, Lenora Hanson, Anna Vitale, Karim Wissa, and Andrew Yale."Feces on the Philosophy of History!: A Manifesto of the MLA Subconference." Pedagogy, vol. 14, no. 3, 2014, pp. 381-393.
Casey, Conor M. "Putting History to Work: The Labor Archives of Washington as a Model for Forging Strong Connections between Labor and the Academy." Labor: Studies in Working Class History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2017, pp. 9-11.
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. Dishing It Out: A History of Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Dewey, Susan. “The Feminized Labor of Sex Work: Two Decades of Feminist Historical and Ethnographic Research.” Labor, vol. 9, no. 2, 2012, pp. 113 – 32.
Doe, Sue and Mike Palmquist. "An Evolving Discourse: The Shifting Uses of Position Statements on the Contingent Faculty." ADE Bulletin, vol. 153, 2013, 23-34.
Dolgon, Corey and Reuben Roth. "Twenty-First-Century Workers' Education in North America: The Defeat of the Left or a Revitalized Class Pedagogy?" Labor Studies Journal, vol. 41, no. 1, 2016, pp. 89-113.
Dubson, Michael, ed. Ghosts in the Classroom: Stories of College Adjunct Faculty and the Price We AIl Pay. Boston: Camel's Back, 2001.
Falasco, Gerilynn, and William J. Jackson. "The Graduate Assistant Labor Movement, NYU and Its Aftermath: A Study of the Attitudes of Graduate Teaching and Research Assistants at Seven Universities." Hofstra Lab. & Emp. LJ 21 (2003): 753.
Flora, Bethany H. "Graduate assistants: Students or staff, policy or practice? The current legal employment status of graduate assistants." Journal of higher education policy and management 29.3 (2007): 315-322.
Fure-Slocum, Eric. "LAWCHA's Contingent Faculty Committee." Labor: Studies in Working Class History, vol. 14, no. 1, 2017, pp. 9-11.
Gappa, Judith M., and David W. Leslie. The Invisible Faculty: Improving the Status of Part-Timers in Higher Education. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1993.
Giroux, Henry. "Neoliberalism, corporate culture, and the promise of higher education: The university as a democratic public sphere." Harvard Educational Review 72.4 (2002): 425-464.
Giroux, Henry A., and Susan Searls Giroux. "Neoliberalism goes to college: Higher education in the new economy." Take Back Higher Education. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 pp. 249-285.
Grant, Barbara M. "Agonistic Struggle: Master—slave dialogues in humanities supervision." Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 7, no. 1, 2008, pp. 9-27.
Hall, Gary. The Uberfication of the University. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Hanley, Larry. "Academic capitalism in the new university." The Radical Teacher , vol. 73, 2005, pp. 3-7.
Hardt, Michael. “Affective Labor.” Boundary 2, vol. 26, no. 2, 1999, pp. 89 – 100.
Hayden, Grant M. "The University Works Because We Do: Collective Bargaining Rights for Graduate Assistants." Fordham L. Rev. 69 (2000): 1233. https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1102&context=faculty_scholarship
Heitsch, Dorothea, Glenn Levine, and Karen Lentz Madison. "What You Can Do: A Position Paper by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession." ADE Bulletin, vol. 153, 2013, 92-97.
---. "Issues and Directions: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members in English and the Other Modern Languages [Special Joint Issue of the ADE Bulletin and the ADFL Bulletin]." ADFL Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 3, 2013, pp. 4.
Heller, Janet Ruth. "Franchising the Disenfranchised: Improving the Lot of Visiting Faculty and Adjuncts." Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat. Ed. Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke. Amsterdam: Rodopi (2007): 79-85.
Herzig, Rebecca and Banu Subramaniam. "Labor in the Age of 'Bio-Everything'." Radical History Review, vol. 127, 2017, pp. 103-124.
Holt, Mara, and Leon Anderson. "The way we work now." Profession (1998): 131-142.
Hoyt, Jeff E. "Predicting the satisfaction and loyalty of adjunct faculty." The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, vol. 60, no. 3, 2012, pp. 132-142.
Hribal, Jason. “ ‘Animals Are Part of the Working Class’: A Challenge to Labor History.” Labor History, vol. 44, no. 4, 2003, pp. 435 – 53.
Jacobs, Jerry A. "Presidential address: The faculty time divide." Sociological Forum, vol. 19. no. 1 , 2004, pp. 3-27.
Johnson, Benjamin, Patrick Kavanagh, and Kevin Mattson, (Eds.) Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Julius, Daniel J., and Patricia J. Gumport. "Graduate student unionization: Catalysts and consequences." The Review of Higher Education 26.2 (2003): 187-216.
Kroik, Polina. "Expanding Our Struggle: Higher Education as a Common Good." Working USA: The Journal of Labor & Society, vol. 18, 2015, pp. 457-460.
Kellogg, Robert. “The Boom Years: Graduate Education in English, 1955–1968.” ADE Bulletin 53 (1977): 23–26.
Lafer, Gordon. "Graduate student unions: Organizing in a changed academic economy." Labor Studies Journal 28.2 (2003): 25-43.
Laurence, David. "A Profile of the Non-Tenure-Track Academic Workforce." ADE Bulletin, vol. 153, 2013, 6-21.
Letizia, Angelo J. "The Hollow University: Disaster Capitalism befalls American Higher Education." Policy Futures in Education, vol. 14, no. 3, 2016, pp. 360-376.
Longmate, Jack. "Dreams of Tenure and the Program for Change." ADE Bulletin, vol. 153, 2013, 35-47.
Ludlow, Jeannie. "Priorities and power: Adjuncts in the academy." Thought and Action, vol. 14, no. 2, 1998, pp. 51-64. http://beta.nsea-nv.org/assets/img/PubThoughtAndAction/TAA_98Fal_06.pdf
McGee, Micki. "Hooked on Higher Education and Other Tales from Adjunct Faculty Organizing." Social Text, vol. 20 no. 1, 2002, pp. 61-80
Martin, Randy, ed. Chalk Lines: The Politics of Work in the Managed University. Duke UP, 1998.
Martin, Randy. "Academic labor: an introduction." Social Text (1997): 1-8.
Mazurek, Raymond A. "Academic labor is a class issue: Professional organizations confront the exploitation of contingent faculty." Journal of Workplace Rights 16.3-4 (2012): 353-366.
Mendoza, Pilar. "Academic capitalism and doctoral student socialization: A case study." The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 78, no. 1, 2007, pp. 71-96.
Nash, Jennifer C. and Emily A. Owens. "Introduction: Institutional Feelings: Practicing Women's Studies in the Corporate University." Feminist Formations, vol. 27, no. 3, 2015, pp. vii-xi.
Nelson, Cary. Manifesto of a tenured radical. NYU Press, 1997.
---. Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.
Newfield, Christopher. The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
---. Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
---. Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Pankin, Robert, and Carla Weiss. "Part-time faculty in higher education: A selected annotated bibliography." Sociology Department Faculty Publications, 2008. https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1000&context=sociology_fac
Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
---. "The University without Culture?" New Literary History, vol. 26, no. 3, 1995, 465-492.
Renault, Catherine Searle. "Academic capitalism and university incentives for faculty entrepreneurship." The Journal of Technology Transfer, vol. 31, no. 2, 2006, pp. 227-239.
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