The generation of public intellectuals: Corporate universities, graduate employees and the academic labor movement

Labor Studies Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-46

  Gilbert, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic unions; Casualization; Corporate universities; Graduate employees; Neoliberalism; Public intellectuals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880646861     PISSN: 0160449X     EISSN: 15389758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X13490407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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