Contents -- Introduction - Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross -- Part I: Corporate University? -- New York: Academic Labor Town? - Ashley Dawson and Penny Lewis -- Academic Freedom in the Age of Casualization - Ellen Schrecker -- A Leadership University for the Twenty-First Century?: Corporate Administration, Contingent Labor, and the Erosion of Faculty Rights - Mary Nolan -- Building a Statue of Smoke: Finance Culture and the NYU Trustees - Christopher Newfield and Greg Grandin -- ICE from the Ashes of FIRE: NYU and the Economy of Culture in New York City - Stephen Duncombe and Sarah Nash -- The High Cost of Learning: Tuition, Educational Aid, and the New Economics of Prestige in Higher Education - Adam Green -- Blue Team, Gray Team: Some Varieties of the Contingent Faculty Experience - Micki McGee -- Part II: GSOC Strike -- Unions at NYU, 1971-2007 -- The Administration Strikes Back: Union Busting at NYU - Susan Valentine -- Bad News for Academic Labor? Lessons in Media Strategy from the GSOC Strike - Steve Fletcher -- If Not Now, When?: The GSOC Strike, 2005-2006 - Miabi Chatterji, Maggie Clinton, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherene Seikaly, and Naomi Schiller -- Which Side Are We On? NYU's Full-Time Faculty and the GSOC Strike - Jeff Goodwin -- Undergraduate Participation in Campus Labor Coalitions: Lessons from the NYU Strike - Andrew Cornell -- Village Hospitality - Matthew Osypowski -- Part III: Lessons for the Future -- The State of the Academic Labor Movement: A Roundtable with Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Bowen, and Ed Ott - Kitty Krupat (moderator) -- Global U - Andrew Ross -- Activists into Organizers!: How to Work with Your Colleagues and Build Power in Graduate School - Monika Krause and Michael Palm -- Sorely Needed: A Corporate Campaign for the Corporate University - Gordon Lafer.

Graduate-Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor - Cary Nelson -- Contributors -- Index.