Contingent Teaching, Corporate Universities, and the Academic Labor Movement.

This article focuses on the status of labor movement within higher education institutions in the United States. The transformation of academic labor movement between the 1970s and the 1990s are discussed and characterized. In the study, the author argued that the corporate transformation of universities and the casualization of academic labor have created devastating implications for higher education. Despite these upheavals, the formation of teaching assistants and adjuncts labor movements serves as a positive sign for higher education teachers and employees.