The Chronicle of Higher Education
Four views form the tenure track
May 30, 2018
Why won’t anyone say the obvious: no one should work as an adjunct." That Facebook post by Claire B. Potter created a little firestorm last fall, which Potter, a professor of history at the New School, fueled with an essay on Inside Higher Ed: "Why Adjuncts Should Quit Complaining and Just Quit." Her argument: "If people refused this labor and did something else with their Ph.D.s — which, according to studies done by professional associations is more than viable — institutions would be forced to adjust their hiring practices."
The backlash was fierce: "Anyone who holds some asinine fantasy about the ‘logic’ of the market solving the adjunctification of the academy needs to shut up," wrote one commenter. "You do terrible damage to our society."
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