On Hiring Faculty off the Tenure Track
Noam Chomsky
That’s part of the business model.
It’s the same as hiring temps in industry or what they call “associates”
at Walmart, employees that aren’t owed benefits. It’s a part of a
corporate business model designed to reduce labor costs and to increase
labor servility. When universities become corporatized, as has been
happening quite systematically over the last generation as part of the
general neoliberal assault on the population, their business model means
that what matters is the bottom line...
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