Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor - a webzine with a lot of quality articles on issues confronting academic workers.
Chicago Steward - On-line newsletter geared toward front-line union activists in the Chicago area.
Boston COCAL - Our big sister and inspiration.
COCAL-CA - The Coalition's manifestation in California.
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions - Part of the reason this group is called "contingent academic labor" is to include graduate student employees.
Campus Equity Week - Articles on events associated with CEW 2003. See also the archived Chicago CEW (2001) site here.
Adjunct Nation - website associated with the National Adjunct Faculty Guild and its print magazine, Adjunct Advocate. This site offers some professional resources, news, a job bank, and so forth.
National Coalition of Independent Scholars - advocates for those doing research outside an academic environment. This group has a newsletter, does some lobbying, offers small grants, etc.
Faculty Rights Coalition - Group based in Texas, focused primarily on changing education laws there.
Adjuncts.com - Tips and resources for adjuncts, from Houghton Mifflin.
FairJobs.org - Web project of the National Association for Fair Employment, a group that focuses on contingent labor generally.
COUP - Committees United against Privatization (a group in the Chicago City Colleges).
Campaign for Better Health Care - this group was involved in rallies for Campus Equity Week in the fall of 2001 and is pushing for greater access to health care. It has a good links page on health issues.
Budget Crises - A new site (February 2004) put up by NAFFE's Campus Organizing Action Group to respond to budget crises in various states.
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Christine Maitland and Gary Rhoades, "Bargaining
for Contingent Faculty" from the 2005 NEA Almanac of Higher Education.
The January/February 2004 issue of Academe, the AAUP's journal, has several good articles on contingent labor:
Contingent Appointments and the Academic Profession - New policy statement adopted by AAUP on November 9, 2003
Rich Klimmer, No Illusions;
Organizing the Academy - Presented to the Organizing Research Network,
Harvard University, June 23, 2003.
Joe Berry, Contingent Faculty in Higher Education: An Organizing Strategy and
Chicago Area Proposal - Joe's dissertation, first available at NAFFE's
site.
Standards of Good
Practice in the Employment of Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty. A Blueprint for
Raising Standards and Ensuring Financial and Professional Equity- July
2002 brochure from the American Federation of Teachers.
All Faculty Matter! A Study of
Nontenure-Track Faculty at Illinois Public Colleges and Universities -
February 2002 report commissioned by the Illinois Board of Higher Education
Public
College and University Reports on Nontenure-Track Faculty - the IBHE's
follow-up report (June 2003) to "All Faculty Matter!"
Marching
Toward Equity - Curbing the Exploitation and Overuse of Part-time and
Non-tenured Faculty - October 2001 report from AFT highlighting their
efforts.
The Vanishing Professor - 1998 report from AFT highlighting the substitution of part-time for full-time employment.
National Conference on Contingent Academic Labor - reports from COCAL IV, held in 2001 in San Jose, California
College campuses ripe for unions' picking - from CNN.com
Casual Nation - Report
from the Coalition of
Graduate Employee Unions.
Who Is Teaching in U.S. College Classrooms? - a collaborative study by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce conducted in 1999 and released November 22, 2000.
Part-Time Faculty in Higher Education Annotated Bibliography - over two hundred listings compiled by Robert Pankin and Carla Weiss.
Adjunct Faculty Compensation Survey - A survey of per-course pay at community colleges conducted by Warren Mosby and hosted on the Adjunct Nation site.
COCAL IV Website - Graciously lent by Ralph Sutter, now archived here. This includes papers and commentary, press reports, and now some photos.
AAUP Guidelines for Part-Time and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Illinois Community College Board