Episode Details

In Part I of our special two-part BONUS EPISODE on labor, class, and higher education, we chat to Trevor Griffey, writer, historian, and Labor Studies lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Dominguez Hills. Trevor breaks down the insidious, decades-long effort to devalue academic labor at the administrative, legislative, and cultural level, and we talk about the resulting crisis academic workers are facing today and what to do about it.   

Additional links/info below...

• Link to Trevor's author page at the Labor and Working-Class History Association 
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "Contingent No More"  
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "Laboring Academia" 
• Eric Anthony Grollman, Conditionally Accepted, "Invisible Labor: Exploitation of Scholars of Color in Academia" 
• Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, "Dancing Backwards in High Heels"
• Marc Bousquet, How the University Works  
• Louise Morley, Times Higher Education, "Working-Class Academics Still Face Discrimination"
• Kevin Birmingham, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Great Shame of Our Profession" 
• Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds, Becky Mansfield, Jenna Loyd, Jennifer Hyndman, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Ranu Basu, Risa Whitson, Roberta Hawkins, Trina Hamilton, Winifred Curran, ACME, "For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University" 
• Christopher Newfield, American Association of University Professors, "Avoiding the Coming Higher Ed Wars" 

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Coolzey, "Terrorist" 
• Phillip Gross, "Cámping" 
• The Gays, "Funk Friend"