The New School’s adjunct professors’ strike shows how even “good” jobs are increasingly precarious

Dec 20 2022 by Fast Company

The successful labor fight at the New York college exposed the human cost of one of college administrators’ favorite cost-cutting tactics: eliminating full-time professor positions.

The longest adjunct professor strike in U.S. history concluded earlier this month, and the workers came out on top. It was a bitter 25-day struggle with the New School, a New York City institution whose conduct toward the strikers may have ultimately tarnished its progressive credentials. On December 11, the...

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