[act-ma] Tonight: Power Despite Precarity, 7:00 (Eastern), Authors' Presentation Organizing on the Campuses

[Suren Moodliar]

*Power Despite Precarity!*
*A Conversation with Joe Berry and Helena Worthen*

*Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 7:00 P.M. Eastern (Live over Zoom
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*Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education*

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Joe Berry and Helena Worthen join with Joe Ramsey in a conversation hosted
by Shelter & Solidarity's Linda Liu and Suren Moodliar.


Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this
struggle are the precariously employed faculty ‘contingents’ who work
without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the
incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher
education.

*Power Despite Precarity* is part history, part handbook and a wholly
indispensable resource in this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline
the four historical periods that led to major transitions in the worklives
of faculty of this sector. They then take a deep dive into the 30-year-long
struggle by California State University lecturers to negotiate what is
recognized as the best contract for contingents in the US.

The authors ask: what is the role of universities in society? Whose
interests should they serve? What are the necessary conditions for the
exercise of academic freedom? Providing strategic insight for activists at
every organizing level, they also tackle 'troublesome questions’ around
legality, union politics, academic freedom and how to recognize friends
(and foes) in the struggle.

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