This work documents the rise of corporate practices within the modern university. It uses first-hand narratives to discuss the challenges and costs of working within this new system and explains why a labour movement has arisen to restore power and independence to university teachers.

INTRODUCTION: Not Your Father's University or Labor Movement Any Longer Part I: THE RISE OF THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY 1. None of Your Business: The Rise of the University of Phoenix and For-profit Education - and Why it Will Fail Us All, Ana Marie Cox 2. Digital Diploma Mills, David Noble 3. Inefficient Efficiency: A Critique of Merit Pay, Denise Tanguay 4. The Drain-o of Higher Education: Casual Labor and University Teaching, Benjamin Johnson PART II: LABORING WITHIN 5. How I Became a Worker, Kevin Mattson 6. The Art of Work in the Age of the Adjunct, Alexis Moore 7.Blacklisted and Blue: On Theory and Practice at Yale, Corey Robin 8. Tenure Denied: Union-Busting and Anti-Intellectualism in the Corporate University, Joel Westheimer PART III: ORGANIZING 9.The Campaign for Union Rights at NYU, Lisa Jessup 10. Democracy is an Endless Organizing Drive: Learning from the Failure and Future of Graduate Student Organizing at the University of Minnesota, Michael Brown, Ronda Copher, and Katy Gray Brown 11. Moving River Barges: Labor Activism and Academic Organizations, Cary Nelson 12. Social Movement Unionism and Adjunct Faculty Organizing in Boston, Barbara Gottfried and Gary Zabel 13. Renewing Unions and Democracy at the Same Time: The Case of the California Faculty Association, Susan Meisenhelder (with the writing assistance of Kevin Mattson) Conclusion Notes on Contributors