{"id":37336,"date":"2019-01-28T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37336"},"modified":"2019-02-18T08:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:44:38","slug":"qotd-inequality-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/28\/qotd-inequality-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Inequality in academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We\u2019ve heard a lot about the problem of inequality in America over recent years. But most of that talk has ignored one of the very worst pockets of inequality in American society. I speak, of course, of the American university system and its treatment of adjunct professors and graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>Academics seem to think that the business world is a feudal environment characterized by huge status differentials and abusive treatment of underlings. They think that because, to be honest, that\u2019s a pretty good characterization of &#8230; the modern university, where serfs in the form of adjunct professors toil in the vineyards.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Reynolds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/02\/16\/inequality-professors-college-administrators-glenn-reynolds-column\/97949532\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Trump should pity the poor PhD: New president should target worker exploitation at American universities&#8221;, <em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve heard a lot about the problem of inequality in America over recent years. But most of that talk has ignored one of the very worst pockets of inequality in American society. I speak, of course, of the American university system and its treatment of adjunct professors and graduate students. Academics seem to think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,41,13],"tags":[198,1272,95,764],"class_list":["post-37336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-equalrights","tag-feudalism","tag-jobs","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Ic","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37337,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37336\/revisions\/37337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}