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  • 1. Foreword: What Yale Is Teaching Us–Barbara Ehrenreich

    2. Introduction: How Not to Handle a Labor Dispute–Cary Nelson

    3. A Short History of Unionization at Yale–John Wilhelm

    4. Why Provoke This Strike? Yale and the U.S. Economy–Rick Wolff

    5. The Labor behind the Cult of Work–Andrew Ross

    6. Boola!–Duncan Kennedy

    7. The Proletariat Goes to College–Robin D. G. Kelley

    8. Against the Grain: Organizing TAs at Yale–Corey Robin, Michelle Stephens

    9. The Blessed of the Earth–Michael Bérubé

    10. Poor, Hungry, and Desperate? Or Privileged, Histrionic, and Demanding? In Search of the True Meaning of “Ph.D.”–Kathy M. Newman

    11. Speaking through Anti-Semitism: The Nation of Islam and the Poetics of Black (Counter)Modernity–Robert F. Reid-Pharr

    12. The Politics of Pragmatism–James Livingston

    13. General Noriega’s Toads: An Ethnographic Theater of the Absurd–Stephanie Kane

    14. Who’s Afraid of Postcoloniality?–Gyan Prakash

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  • Description

    A Yale Strike Dossier examines the uneasy coexistence of labor unions and the administration of Yale University. Inspired by the strike during the winter of 1995–96 and creating a context in which that event can be discussed, this special issue of Social Text focuses on the relationship between the university and its teaching assistants and service workers.
    The Yale Corporation, the university’s equivalent to a board of trustees, has been in conflict with its employees and their unions for decades. While partially blaming general economic trends for what they regard as the inhumane system at Yale, contributors to this collection explore the connection between big business and a large university as well as Yale’s choice to operate in a nontraditional, corporate style. An unprecedented collection of essays, this volume provides an in-depth discussion of the history and politics of Yale’s most visible campus conflict.

    Contributors. Michael Bérubé, Barbara Ehrenreich, Robin D. G. Kelley, Duncan Kennedy, Cary Nelson, Kathy Newman, Corey Robin, Andrew Ross, Michelle Stephens, John Wilhelm, Rick Wolff

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