Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:09:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Subject: Re: class & grad students


On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, George Free wrote:

> As members of the dominant class, the educated elite remain closely tied
> with the economic elite. 

Oh, I don't disagree with you there, the upper crust of tenured profs are
certainly bought and paid for. But the globalized, corporatized university
system of the US nowadays is very, very polarized; the AFT did some study
and concluded that more than half of all professors are adjuncts,
part-timers or non-tenured in some way or other (not that the tenured are
themselves necessarily at the top of the heap). This is happening in other
industries as well: in health care, nurses and staffers outnumber doctors,
etc. There's a very wide spectrum there which the union movement of the
21st century has got to map out, analyze, and use to its advantage (I'd
bring up the NBA, but then I'd have to out myself as a Blazer fan... quel
horreur!).

-- Dennis


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