Richard Goldin Advises Adjuncts to "Dismantle the Entire Professiorial Apparatus of Privilege" in Counterpunch August 12, 2015

"Progressives and the Economic Inequality in Academia," by Richard Goldin, Counterpunch, August 12, 2015
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/13/progressives-and-the-economic-inequality-in-academias

Excerpt:

"One of the few options currently available to adjuncts to improve their financial situation is a faculty union.[19] But unions comprised of both tenured and adjunct faculty will never question the mechanisms which underlie the academic hierarchy.[20] Instead, they will ask adjuncts to join in fights for general increases in faculty salaries which disproportionately benefit those who already earn the most.[21] The trade-off for adjuncts is an incremental raise in pay in return for a reinforcement of the structures and relations which perpetuate their impoverishment.

The academic hierarchy will not be altered by resorting to arguments about fairness, equality or basic human decency. Unions composed solely of adjuncts must fight for far greater increases in adjunct salaries as part of a larger struggle to dismantle the entire professorial apparatus of privilege. All progressives should join in this effort."