This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary.

This book is written by a high profile author team

Punchy, readable and provocative - this is a debate that has raged fiercely for some time, and the authors adopt the controversial position that professors have been complicit in the gradual erosion of their own working conditions

Of interest not only to humanities professors conversant with the authors' past writings, but also to social scientists (particularly education scholars)

Autorentext
Michael Bérubé is the Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University and the former president of the Modern Language Association.

Jennifer Ruth is Associate Professor of English and former chair of the Department of English at Portland State University.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction: This is Not the Crisis You're Looking For 1. Value and Values 2. Slow Death and Painful Labors 3. From Professionalism to Patronage 4. On the Rails Appendix: Implementing a Teaching-Intensive Tenure Track at Portland State University Bibliography Index