[Upd-discuss] Book: Steal This University: The Rise of The Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

From: Progressive Librarians Guild, USA.
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"Monika Antonelli" <MANTONEL@library.unt.edu>  
To:	srrtac-l@ala.org, plgnet-l@listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject:	Book of the Day - Steal this University

Here is another book you might want to add to your library's collection.  
Steal This University: The Rise of The Corporate University and the 
Academic Labor Movement, edited by Benjamin Johnson, Patrick Kavanagh,
Kevin Mattson.
Paperback: 288 pages 
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (January 1, 2003) 
ISBN: 0415934842 
List Price: $20.95 

>From the back cover:
Steal This University documents the rise of the corporate university over 
the past twenty years as well as the academic labor movement that has 
developed in response.  Universities are increasingly looking to
corporations 
as their model for reform, investing in merit-pay packages, partnerships 
with high-tech companies and anything that will reap profits from their 
creations.  With controversial, personal stories of workplace
exploitation, 
tenure battles, and union organizing, the book shows the challenges of 
working within this new system and explains the countermovemnt working to 
restore independence to university teachers.

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ENG: "Corporations are not democratic institutions --their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them."
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ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son instituciones democráticas: a sus directores y gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les emplean."

-- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power : La corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson, p. 151


		
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