A Review of Steal This University

by Vicki Urquhart History professors Benjamin Johnson and Kevin Mattson, and union representative Patrick Kavanagh, provide an insider’s look at the academic labor movement in Steal This University. Labor activists all, they speak with one voice to warn of the imminent demise of the professoriate and the simultaneous rise of the corporate university. “The use of part-time hires, including graduate student teachers and postdocs, has grown and grown for the last several decades,” writes Johnson. “A majority of those who now teach in the nation’s colleges and universities are paid poorly, have little or no job security, few or no […]