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Title:
Working in class : recognizing how social class shapes our academic work / edited by Allison L. Hurst and Sandi Kawecka Nenga.
Author:
Hurst, Allison L., 1969- editor.

Nenga, Sandi Kawecka, editor.
Publication Information:
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Call Number:
LC191.94 .W67 2016
Abstract:
"More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds while being aware that the goals of many colleges and universities stand in contrast to the recruitment and support of these students. This, combined with the fact that campuses are increasingly reliant on adjunct labor, makes it difficult for the contemporary tenure-track or tenured working-class academic to reconcile his or her position in the academy"--Publisher's description.
ISBN:
9781475822526

9781475822533

9781475822540
Physical Description:
vii, 211 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Research. Class as a force of habit : the social world embodied in scholarship / Controlling for class : or the persistence of classism in psychology / Class, academia, and ontologies of global selfhood / Survival strategies for working-class women as junior faculty members / Teaching. Boundary crossing : social class and race in the classroom / Lessons learned : how I unintentionally reproduce class inequality / Making class salient in the sociology classroom / Witnessing social class in the academy / The classroom crucible : preparing teachers from privilege for students of poverty / Work in the Academy. Working-class, teaching class, and working class in the academy / "We're all middle class here" : privilege and the denial of class inequality in the Canadian professoriate / Narrating the job crisis : self-development or collective action? / Capitalizing class : an examination of socioeconomic diversity on the contemporary campus
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