http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/15/the-war-between-the-states-of-employment/ History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Fri, 24 May 2013 22:56:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/15/the-war-between-the-states-of-employment/comment-page-1/#comment-532492 Friday food fights! Plus evidence of my evildoing, with links. : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:53:08 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/15/the-war-between-the-states-of-employment/#comment-532492 [...] The War Between the States (of employment) [...] [...] The War Between the States (of employment) [...]

]]> http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/15/the-war-between-the-states-of-employment/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Radreadr Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:23:12 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/15/the-war-between-the-states-of-employment/#comment-49 I'm wondering if a sense of alination that job candiates feel in relation to hiring faculty is actually alienation from labor. Many universities and departments continue to pretend that graduate students are not also workers. But the apprentice/student model just doesn't fit when grad students are sometimes teaching as much as ladder faculty. And it is amazing how faculty infantilize grad workers and how some students embrace that. The notion that search processes can be standardized ignores the realities that companies do not all behave alike or have the same cultures. And standardization is not necessarily a way to be fair and respectful. I’m wondering if a sense of alination that job candiates feel in relation to hiring faculty is actually alienation from labor. Many universities and departments continue to pretend that graduate students are not also workers. But the apprentice/student model just doesn’t fit when grad students are sometimes teaching as much as ladder faculty. And it is amazing how faculty infantilize grad workers and how some students embrace that. The notion that search processes can be standardized ignores the realities that companies do not all behave alike or have the same cultures. And standardization is not necessarily a way to be fair and respectful.

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