BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE

Adjunct by Geoff Cebula. Self-published, 137 pp., $7.99 (paper)

Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education by Joe Berry.

Monthly Review, 162 pp., $75.00; $13.00 (paper)

The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell.

Zed, 233 pp., $22.95 (paper)

The Adjunct Underclass:

How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission by Herb Childress.

University of Chicago Press, 213 pp., $24.00

Where Historians Work: An Interactive Database of History PhD Career Outcomes American Historical Association. Available at www.historians.org/ wherehistorianswork

Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct

Faculty in America edited by Kim Tolley.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 219 pp., $34.95

The Meritocracy Trap:

How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovits.

Penguin Press, 418 pp., $30.00

Listen, Liberal:

Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank.

Picador, 334 pp., $17.00 (paper)

Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream by Suzanne Mettler. Basic Books,

261 pp., $27.99

Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown. Zone, 295 pp.,

$29.95; $18.95 (paper)

The Great Mistake:

How We Wrecked

Public Universities and How We Can

Fix Them by Christopher Newfield. Johns Hopkins University Press, 430 pp., $36.95; $29.95 (paper)