Poverty of College Teaching: Capitalist Economic Violence Against Road Scholars

When most Americans think of poverty they might think of the unemployed, service workers, truck loaders, shipping clerks or day laborers. But college teaching? Don’t college teachers make a good living? After all, they are professionals. Under capitalist education, adjuncts are intellectual migrants who cannot even afford to remain in the profession to support themselves, as this article details.
Read in The Guardian
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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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