Adrianna Kezar is a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and the co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, where she is the principal investigator for the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success. She is the author of numerous books, including How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change. Tom DePaola is a provost's fellow in urban education policy at the University of Southern California, a researcher with the Pullias Center for Higher Education, and a member of USC's Graduate Student Organizing Committee. Daniel T. Scott is a PhD student at the University of Southern California and a researcher with the Pullias Center's Delphi Project.

The Gig Academy is a wonderful précis on the dire state of the modern American university.—Daniel Bessner, The Nation

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Putting the Gig Academy in Context: Neoliberalism and Academic Capitalism Chapter 2. Employees in the Gig Academy: Insecure, Isolated, Exploited, and Devalued Chapter 3. Disintegrating Relationships and the Demise of Community Chapter 4. How Employment Practices Negatively Impact Student Learning and Outcomes Chapter 5. The Growth of Unions and New Broad-Based Organizing Strategies Chapter 6. Whither the Struggle: Future Trends, Policies, and Actions NotesReferencesIndex

Adrianna Kezar is a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and the co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, where she is the principal investigator for the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success. She is the author of numerous books, including How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change. Tom DePaola is a provost's fellow in urban education policy at the University of Southern California, a researcher with the Pullias Center for Higher Education, and a member of USC's Graduate Student Organizing Committee. Daniel T. Scott is a PhD student at the University of Southern California and a researcher with the Pullias Center's Delphi Project.

The Gig Academy is a wonderful précis on the dire state of the modern American university.—Daniel Bessner, The Nation

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Putting the Gig Academy in Context: Neoliberalism and Academic Capitalism Chapter 2. Employees in the Gig Academy: Insecure, Isolated, Exploited, and Devalued Chapter 3. Disintegrating Relationships and the Demise of Community Chapter 4. How Employment Practices Negatively Impact Student Learning and Outcomes Chapter 5. The Growth of Unions and New Broad-Based Organizing Strategies Chapter 6. Whither the Struggle: Future Trends, Policies, and Actions NotesReferencesIndex

Adrianna Kezar is a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and the co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, where she is the principal investigator for the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success. She is the author of numerous books, including How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change. Tom DePaola is a provost's fellow in urban education policy at the University of Southern California, a researcher with the Pullias Center for Higher Education, and a member of USC's Graduate Student Organizing Committee. Daniel T. Scott is a PhD student at the University of Southern California and a researcher with the Pullias Center's Delphi Project.

The Gig Academy is a wonderful précis on the dire state of the modern American university.—Daniel Bessner, The Nation

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Putting the Gig Academy in Context: Neoliberalism and Academic Capitalism Chapter 2. Employees in the Gig Academy: Insecure, Isolated, Exploited, and Devalued Chapter 3. Disintegrating Relationships and the Demise of Community Chapter 4. How Employment Practices Negatively Impact Student Learning and Outcomes Chapter 5. The Growth of Unions and New Broad-Based Organizing Strategies Chapter 6. Whither the Struggle: Future Trends, Policies, and Actions NotesReferencesIndex