Helena Worthen “Troublesome Questions: Organizing in Higher Education

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Please join the UWT Labor Solidarity Project this Wednesday at 6pm as we host Helena Worthen, who will be discussing her recent book Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Movement in Higher Education (Pluto Press 2021).

Across the nation, institutions of higher education are engaged in a decades-long race to the bottom. As budgets are slashed, faculty across ranks are expected to do more with less, and students, despite the surging cost of tuition, are receiving increasingly smaller returns on their investments.

Power Despite Precarity suggests that there is nothing natural or inevitable about this trend. Drawing on the activism and expertise of its coauthors, Power Despite Precarity surveys the state of organizing in higher education and suggests that working together is the only path toward a more just and equitable future.  

Helena Worthen is a novelist, a union activist, and a retired contingent faculty member. Her work, What Did You Learn at Work Today? (2013) won the 2014 Best Book award from the United Association of Labor Education. 

Please share this event with anyone you think might be interested in attending. 

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Best,

The UWT Labor Solidarity Project

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