The War on Tenure
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2025
- ISBN 9781009596831
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 228x151x15 mm
- Weight 430 g
- Language English 691
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Short description:
Sheds light on tenure's importance as an employment protection and its impact on the quality of education and research.
MoreLong description:
As academia increasingly comes under attack in the United States, The War on Tenure steps in to demystify what professors do and to explain the importance of tenure for their work. Deepa Das Acevedo takes readers on a backstage tour of tenure-stream academia to reveal hidden dynamics and obstacles. She challenges the common belief that tenure is only important for the protection of academic freedom. Instead, she argues that the security and autonomy provided by tenure are also essential to the performance of work that students, administrators, parents, politicians, and taxpayers value. Going further, Das Acevedo shows that tenure exists on a spectrum of comparable employment contracts, and she debunks the notion that tenure warps the incentives of professors. Ultimately, The War on Tenure demonstrates that the job security tenure provides is not nearly as unusual, undesirable, or unwarranted as critics claim.
'A compelling, thought-provoking exploration of academia's most debated topic: tenure. Masterfully bridging history, law, social science, and fascinating contemporary stories, The War on Tenure will be an engaging and insightful read for anyone who cares about the future of education, the power of ideas, and the rights of workers in an increasingly precarious world. Thoughtful and timely, this book is a powerful reminder that defending tenure is about more than academia - it's about protecting workers whose labor is valued by all participants in our democracy.' Orly Lobel, award-winning author of The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future (PublicAffairs), and Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for Employment & Labor Policy (CELP), University of San Diego
Table of Contents:
1. Skirmishes; Part 1: 2. Shepherd; 3. Scrounge; 4. Squint; Part II: 5. Cause, just cause; 6. Origins; 7. Multihyphenate; 8. ... choosers; 9. Two bodies; 10. To the dogs; 11. Butlerian dialectics; Part III: 12. Renegade; 13. Predator; 14. Slacker; 15. In causa sua; 16. 'This important service'; 17. Pmcs unite?; Part IV: 18. Jobs... for life?; 19. They said, they said; 20. Public / private; 21. If I stay it will be double; 22. Riffed; 23. So what?; 24. Tenure 2.0; Conclusion.
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