The University Against Itself

By Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross, editors

(Temple University Press, 2008)

Through a series of essays, The University Against Itself analyzes the academic labor movement, with a particular focus on NYU’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) and its actions during the 2005-06 academic year. The book’s essays, written by graduate students, faculty, and labor organizers involved with GSOC’s efforts, provide a brief history of labor organizing on American campuses, analyze the state of academic labor today, and speculate about how the university workplace may evolve for employees.

            The work was edited by NYU doctoral students Monika Krause and Michael Palm as well as by NYU history professor Mary Nolan and Andrew Ross, chair of NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.