[lbo-talk] Laboring to Teach

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Mon Nov 23 14:36:02 PST 2009


On Mon, November 23, 2009 1:13 pm, Peter Ward wrote:


> Otherwise, tenured
> professors literally would play golf all day and do no work (they don't
> do much as it is), as one of my associate profs once bitterly complained.

That's all gone now. All the tenured profs I've ever met in the US university system all work incredibly hard. 80-hour weeks, hordes of students, endless committee work, piles of email. It's part of the relentless line speed-up for service sector workers in the US over the past 35 years.

-- DRR



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