After the Academy

In this special compilation episode, we talk to eight working-class scholars about loving, leaving, and being left behind by academia.   Additional links/info below... Working People, Season 1, Bonus Episode #2, Trevor Griffey  Working People, Season 1, Episode 10, John Buckley  Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "Contingent No More"  Erin Bartram, "The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind" The Nostalgia Trap, "Episode 89: Erin Bartram"   Patricia A. Matthew (ed), UNC Press, Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure  Kevin Birmingham, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "'The Great Shame of Our Profession'" James M. Van Wyck & Lynn Arner, Inside Higher Ed, "Blue-Collar Ph.D." Trevor Griffey, LAWCHA, "The Decline of Faculty Tenure"  Marc Bousquet, NYU Press, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation Hamilton Nolan, Gawker, "The Horrifying Reality of the Academic Job Market"  Anonymous, Inside Higher Ed, "Treadmill to Oblivion" Herb Childress, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "This Is How You Kill a Profession" Jonathan Kramnick, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "How the Jobs Crisis Has Transformed Faculty Hiring"    Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive:freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Breath Before the Plunge, "End of All Things" Marisa Anderson, "Pulse"  Return to Normal, "The Observer"