Of possible interest:
How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
by Marc Bousquet. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
Reviewed by Doug Lorimer (excerpted from the CAUT Bulletin, December 2008)
Those of us who work and study in a contemporary North American university or college are aware of the growing divergence between the idealized past of the academy and present-day realities of the working lives of students and faculty. In his study, How the University Works, Marc Bousquet forces us to lay aside our illusions and come face-to-face with the realities of the regressive changes that have occurred in post-secondary education over the last three decades.
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