Book / Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat

Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labour in Higher Education, ed. Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2309-3.

Publisher's description (partial): "Once adjunct teaching was considered a temporary solution to faculty shortages in institutions of higher education. Now it is a permanent and indispensable feature of such institutions, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. . . . It looks at its impact on the lives of the highly-educated scholars and teachers from many parts of the world; scholars waking up to the sobering fact that higher education presents them with a two-tiered labour market in which they themselves are permanently barred from moving up to the higher tier. To them, being an adjunct teacher means experiencing frustration and humiliation. . . . In turn defiant, poignant, analytical, exasperated, and sardonic, these essays are always incisive and revealing. Their inside view -- a view from below--shows higher education as a world different from how it appears to tenured professors and university administrators, different from that presented in most college brochures."