Personal versus Political (was Re: adjunct pay whine)

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

It's more ominous, but also, in other ways, more promising. I work in
another professional field, though my parents were academics, and I've spent
much of my life trying to adapt trade-unionism to professional work. It
isn't just a simple matter of bringing the word. Professional values are not
unimportant, and there are aspects to them that are very well worth
preserving. A task for leftists, especially academic leftists, perhaps, will
be to think out how to assess these realities as they change.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

michael perelman wrote:


> Wonderful news!
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > I promise
> > to Justin, Jordan, Carrol, Doug, Michael P., Michael H., & other
> > concerned individuals to finish _this year_!).
>
> By the way, the whole question about academica is complex.  We academics
> live in a feudal institution, which is rapidly becoming ever more
> subject to the rules of the market.  The feudal wierdness is galling,
> although from what i have seen the European mandarins are far more
> unsufferable than we are, but we can be pretty bad.
>
> While we can rail against the inequities of our feudal hierarchy, what
> lies ahead is far more ominous.
> --
>
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
> Tel. 530-898-5321
> E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu