The Female Precariat

Gender and Contingency in the Professional Work Force

Margie Burns, Rachelann Lopp Copland, Tamara Ionkova Hammond (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2019
Universitas Press (Verlag)
9781988963075 (ISBN)

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A volume that addresses gender disparities in pay, professional support, and job security in both the higher education work force and in the newer digital economy. Its purpose is to explain the higher education precariat and the digital precariat at large, and to document how they disproportionately involve women.

Margie Burns, Rachelann Lopp Copland, and Tamara Ionkova Hammond are all adjunct instructors in the humanities.

Then and Now: The Adjunct Phenomenon from the 1970s to Now, Updated; Overview: The Phenomenon of Adjunct Faculty; Gender and Academic Contingency; Causes and Consequences of the Overuse of Adjunct Faculty; Possible Courses of Action; Notes / Margie Burns; Requiem for Meritocracy: The Academic Female Precariat in the Margins; Introduction; Defining the Academic Precariat; Academics as Martyrs: Extra Unpaid Work Does Not Equal Caring about Students; Money Talk: Culture of Silence; An American Problem: Definitions of Work, Class and Labor and Gendered Implications; Securities out of Reach; Blue Precarity; Precariat Motherhood; Precarious Mental Health; Academic Precariat ProblemsLack of Solidarity; Activism, Empowerment, Conclusions / Rachelann Lopp Copland; The Feminization of Digital Work: The Invisible Appropriation of Un(Der)Paid Female Labor; Introduction; Professional Women of Silicon Valley: Debunking the Myth of Meritocracy in Technology; The Professional Social Network: LinkedIn and the Dual Role of New Media; Conclusion; Notes / Tamara Ionkova Hammond; Notes on Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-13	9781988963075 / 9781988963075
Zustand	Neuware