Extreme Work Study

by E Wayne Ross on January 5, 2009

1839_pic.jpgAcademic Matters: Extreme Work Study

In this excerpt adapted from Marc Bousquet‘s recent book, How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, 2008), Marc Bousquet explores the relationship of mass higher education in the United States to a global shift toward precarious employment.