The Politics of Faculty Unionization: The Experience of Three New England Universities

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Bloomsbury Academic, Sep 30, 2000 - Education - 160 pages

Faculty unions are an important part of the current higher education landscape, particularly in the public sector. Yet, the rise of unionism among university faculties during the 1960's and 1970's was an unexpected development that clashed with many assumptions about academic life. Amid campus tensions, economic crisis and state political controversies, the faculties of the Universities of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island were among those joining ranks of organized labor during that era. This book follows the documentary record of faculty unionization at these New England universities to explore how and why unionization came about.

As the book reveals, faculty unionization can be much more than the simple result of local controversies. When examined in light of the surrounding political and economic environment, a complex picture emerges. On these New England campuses, the process invoked the participation of many actors. Faculties, administrations, boards, state political leaders, and national associations all played a part in shaping the course of events, sometimes in unexpected and unintended ways. Gordon B. Arnold places these events in context, providing a 35-year overview of faculty unionism, and locating faculty unionization within the broader realm of organized labor and the rise of public sector collective bargaining.

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Contents

Faculty and Labor
19
Three Decades of Faculty Unionism
37
Faculty Unionization at the University
55
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GORDON B. ARNOLD is Adjunct Research Associate, Center for Policy Analysis, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at Montserrat College of Art./e

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TitleThe Politics of Faculty Unionization: The Experience of Three New England Universities
AuthorGordon B. Arnold
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2000
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 31, 2008
ISBN0897897161, 9780897897167
Length160 pages
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