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Resource List for Conference
"Education for Democracy: Fighting the Corporate Takeover"

March 3, 2001, UMKC

Books and videos

Barrow, Clyde W. Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of Higher
Education, 1894-1928. Madison, WI: U Wisconsin P, 1990.

Bérubé, Michael and Cary Nelson, eds. Higher Education under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the
Humanities. NY: Routledge, 1995.

Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. NY: Monthly
Review P, 1998 [1974].

Center for Campus Organizing. Uncovering the Right on Campus: A Guide to Resisting Conservative Attacks on
Equality and Social Justice. Houston: Public Search P, 1997.

Cooke, Morris L. Academic and Industrial Efficiency: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching. NY: 1911.

Feldman, Jonathan. Universities in the Business of Repression: The Academic-Military-Industrial Complex in Central
America. Boston: South End P, 1989.

Gelberg, Denise. The "Business" of Reforming American Schools. Albany: SUNY P, 1997.

Giroux, Henry A. and Kostas Myrsiades, eds. Beyond the Corporate University: Culture and Pedagogy in the New
Millenium. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 [forthcoming]

Kenney, Martin. Biotechnology: The University-Industry Complex. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale U P, 1986.

Krimsky, Sheldon. Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics. New York: Praeger, 1991.

Lichtenstein, Nelson and Howell John Harris, eds. Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise.
Cambridge, UK, and Washington, D.C.: Cambridge U P and the Woodrow Wilson Center P, 1993.

Nelson, Cary. Manifesto of a Tenured Radical. NY: NYU P, 1997.

Nelson, Cary, ed. Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1997.

Nelson, Cary and Stephen Watt. Academic Keywords: A Devils' Dictionary for Higher Education. NY: Routledge, 1999.

Noble, David F. Digital Diploma Mills: the Automation of Higher Education. NY: Monthly Review P, 2001.

Reitz, Charles. Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse. Albany, NY:
SUNY P, 2000.

Ridgeway, James. The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis. New York: Ballantine Books, 1968.

Schiffrin, André, ed. The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years. NY: New
Press, 1997.

Smith, David N. Who Rules the Universities? An Essay in Class Analysis. NY: Monthly Review P, 1974.

Soley, Lawrence C. Leasing the Ivory Tower: The Corporate Takeover of Academia. Boston: South End P, 1995.

Trumpbour, John, ed. How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire. Boston: South End P, 1989

Vellela, Tony. New Voices: Student Political Activism in the '80s and '90s. Boston: South End P, 1988.

White, Geoffrey D., ed. Campus, Inc.: Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000

Wolf, Barbara, Dir. Video. Degrees of Shame. Part-Time Faculty: Migrant Workers of the Information Economy. 30
min.,1997

Articles

"Challenging Industrial Agriculture." Food First News & Views 21.72 (1998): 6.

"In 1998 Food First fought the takeover by biotech giant Novartis of the School of Natural Resources at the University of California at Berkeley, on the grounds that publicly funded research would be unfairly captured for private benefit."

Chomsky, Noam. "Assaulting Solidarity--Privatizing Education." http://www.calfac.org/Future/Chomsky.html

Diehr, George and John R. Montanari. "Management Expenses in the California State University: Is It time for Restructuring?"
http://www.calfac.org/Future/Diehr.html

Hill, Norman L. "Democratic and Other Principles of Empowerment on Campus." Power and Empowerment in Higher
Education. Ed. D.B. Robertson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1978.

Is Your Kid Failing Lunch?" Consumer Reports (Sept. 1998): 49-53.
[corporate fast food in schools]

Kavanagh, Patrick. "A Vision of Democratic Governance in Higher Education: The Stakes of Work in Academia." Social
Policy 30.4 (Summer 2000). [includes contingent faculty organizing] http://www.socialpolicy.org/

Miller, Richard S. Letter to Chancellor Reed, California State University System. http://www.calfac.org/Future/Miller.html

Miyoshi, Masao. "'Globalization,' Culture, and the University." The Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and
Masao Miyoshi. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998.

Mokhiber, Russell and Robert Weissman. "Marriott: Corporate Schoolyard Bully." Focus on the Corporation (Mar. 1999).

* Moses, Daniel Noah. "Distinguishing a University from a Shopping Mall." Thought and Action [NEA] (Spring 1999):
139-150. [also available at http://www.nea.org]

Noble, David. "Digital Diploma Mills."
        Part 1: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_1/noble/
        Part 2: http://www.uwo.ca/uwofa/articles/di_dip_2.html
        Part 3: http://www.tao.ca/wind/rre/0584.html
        Part 4: http://communication.ucsd.edu/dl/ddm4.html

Noble, David. "Selling Academe to the Technology Industry." Thought and Action [NEA] (Spring 1998): 29-40.

"Universities are not simply undergoing a technological transformation. Beneath this change--and camouflaged by it--lies another: the commercialization of higher education."

"Out of Crisis -- Reforming Governance of the California State University". Unanimously endorsed by San Jose State U.
Faculty Senate 11/29/99. http://www.sjsu/senate/ss-f99-6.htm

Pritchett, Henry S. "Shall the University Become a Business Corporation?" (1905) [Discussed in Barrow]

Puiggros, Adriana. "World Bank Education Policy: Market Liberalism Meets Ideological Conservatism." NACLA Report on
the Americas (May-June 1996): 26-31.

"The World Bank recommends privatizing and breaking up national public school systems ..."

"Reading, Writing, and ... Buying?" Consumer Reports (Sept. 1998): 45-48.
[commercialism in schools]

Ross, Andrew. "Forum." PMLA (Mar. 1997): 285-286.

"The backdrop for the ensuing debates has been the sustained assault on higher education: the depreciation of nontechnical knowledge, the vilification of radical critical inquiry, the slackening of the state's will to fund the education of its citizenry, the corporatization of the university, a low-wage revolution in the academic labor force, and the first steps toward the eradication of tenure.... the humanities and the values-oriented social sciences are taking direct hits ..."

Selcraig, Bruce. "Reading, 'Riting, and Ravaging: The Three Rs, Brought to You by Corporate America and the Far Right."
Sierra [Sierra Club] (May-June 1998): 60-60-65, 86, 89-92.
[on environmental education]

Soley, Lawrence. "Phi Beta Capitalism: Universities in Service to Business." Covert Action Quarterly (Spring 1997): 40-45.

"University, Inc." Multinational Monitor (Nov. 1997) [special issue].
http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm1197.00.html

Wood, James L. "C. P. Snow Revisited: The Two Cultures of Faculty and Administration."
http://www.calfac.org/Future/Jim_Wood.html

Wood, James L. "The Faculty, Strategic Plans, and the Business Model for Higher Education."
http://www.calfac.org/Future/Jim_Wood_2.html

Yates, Michael D. "Frederick Taylor Comes to College: Breaking Faculty Jobs into Discrete Tasks." Z Magazine (Mar.
1999): 45-48.

* Zaidi, Ali Shehzad. "Adjuncts Arise." Z Magazine (Oct. 1998): 19.

* -----. "At Adelphi, Recovering the Lengthening View: University or Diamond Mine?" Against the Current (Nov-Dec
1998): 3-6.

* -----. "At the Rochester Institute of Technology: Politics of High-Tech Damnation." Against the Current (Nov-Dec
1997): 15-20.

* -----. "From Public to Private: The Dismantling of SUNY." City [Rochester, NY] (July 29-Aug. 4, 1998): 6-9.

* -----. "Powerful Compassion: The Strike at Syracuse." Monthly Review 51.4 (Sept. 1999): 27-38.

* -----. "Restoring Memory." Review of Eileen Welsome, Plutonium Files. Monthly Review 51.10 (Mar. 2000): 52-54.

-----. "Rochester, Radiation, and Repression." Z Magazine (Apr. 1997): 11-12

-----. "The Rochester Renaissance: A Corporate Farewell to the Imagination." UR [Rochester] Voice 3.2 (1996): 6-7, 9.

-----. "Students on the Move." Z Magazine (Mar. 1998): 22.
[report on Democracy Teach-in 1997]

* -----. "Sentimentality and Responsibility in the University." Covert Action Quarterly (Spring-Summer 1999): 70-73.

-----. "SUNY in Crisis." Dollars and Sense (July-Aug 1998): 9.

-----. "UR Reborn [University of Rochester]." Crossings 1.1 (Spring 1997): 27-54.

* limited copies supplied by author

Journals

Academe. Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. http://www.aaup.org/academe.htm

Corporate Predators. http://www.corporatepredators.org

Focus on the Corporation. http://www.sfbg.com/focus/

Infusion. Journal of the Center for Campus Organizing http://www.cco.org/infusion/index.html

Multinational Monitor. http://www.essential.org/monitor/monitor.html

Thought and Action. Journal of the National Education Association http://www.nea.org

Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. http://www.workplace-gsc.com
http://www.louisville.edu/journal/workplace/

Organizations and websites

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)   http://www.aaup.org
        AAUP Policy Documents & Reports     http://www.aaup.org/Redbook
        Academe    http://www.aaup.org/academe.htm
        Footnotes   http://www.aaup.org/fn.htm

AAUP, Missouri State Conference http://hometown.aol.com/moaaup/

AAUP, UMKC Chapter http://cas.umkc.edu/aaup/

American Federation of Teachers (AFT)     http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/
        On Campus (online periodical)
        Higher Education Leader (online periodical)

Alliance for Democracy http://afd-online.org

California Faculty Association (CFA) http://www.calfac.org

California Part-Time Faculty Association (CPFA) http://www.cpfa.org

Campus Democracy Collective, U. Arkansas http://comp.uark.edu/~cdemcol/

Canadian Federation of Students http://www.cfs-fcee.ca

Center for Campus Organizing http://www.cco.org

Center for Commercial-Free Public Education http://www.commercialfree.org

Center for Defense Information http://www.cdi.org

Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, Boston (COCAL) http://omega.cc.umb.edu/~cocal/

Coalition on the Academic Workforce Surveys http://www.theaha.org/caw/index.htm

Conference on Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL IV) http://www.cpfa.org/cocal/index.html

Corp Focus http://lists.essential.org/corp.focus