In this special compilation episode, we talk to eight working-class scholars about loving, leaving, and being left behind by academia.

  Additional links/info below...

• Working People, Season 1, Bonus Episode #2, Trevor Griffey 
• Working People, Season 1, Episode 10, John Buckley 
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "Contingent No More" 
• Erin Bartram, "The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind"
• The Nostalgia Trap, "Episode 89: Erin Bartram"  
• Patricia A. Matthew (ed), UNC Press, Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure 
• Kevin Birmingham, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "'The Great Shame of Our Profession'"
• James M. Van Wyck & Lynn Arner, Inside Higher Ed, "Blue-Collar Ph.D."
• Trevor Griffey, LAWCHA, "The Decline of Faculty Tenure" 
• Marc Bousquet, NYU Press, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
• Hamilton Nolan, Gawker, “The Horrifying Reality of the Academic Job Market” 
• Anonymous, Inside Higher Ed, “Treadmill to Oblivion”
• Herb Childress, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "This Is How You Kill a Profession"
• Jonathan Kramnick, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "How the Jobs Crisis Has Transformed Faculty Hiring" 

 

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive:freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Breath Before the Plunge, "End of All Things"
• Marisa Anderson, "Pulse" 
• Return to Normal, "The Observer"