For those of us who have flirted with a life in academia, Marc Bousquet's How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, January 2008) may help explain why so many of us dumped the love affair before it ever began. In his [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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