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47 Lab. Stud. J. 5 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/labstuj47 and id is 1 raw text is: Official Journa of Org[a United Association for Original M anuscript Labor Education Adjuncts Unite! The Struggle to Unionize, Administrative Response, and Building a Bigger Movement Labor Studies journal 2022, Vol. 47(l) 5-27 © 2021 UALE Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1 177/0160449X21 1028660 journals.sagepub.com/home/isj Christian A. I. Schlaerth' Abstract In the last decade, adjuncts have become the dominant faculty type at most colleges and universities, making up to 80 percent of those teaching college courses. Their conditions and struggles have been well documented in terms of their compensation and working conditions. Adjuncts have begun to organize across the nation, while also fighting for a broader movement, most notably through Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) Faculty Forward Campaign, along with others. However, institutions of higher learning have been fighting back against these efforts in the same manners that for-profit companies have done in the past. This paper demonstrates the conflict as well as providing a framework for something bigger. Keywords adjunct, higher education, unions, labor Introduction It is no secret that over the last twenty years, the process of higher education and the ultimate goals have changed. In the early 2000s, the word globalization was simply a buzzword signifying that great societies were going to become increasingly con- nected with new markets opening for economic competition. Now, colleges and uni- versities have the specific goal of preparing their graduates for a twenty-first-century, 'Waldorf University, Forest City, IA, USA Corresponding Author: Christian A. I. Schlaerth, Waldorf University, 106 South 6th St., Forest City, IA 50436, USA. Email: christian.schlaerth@waldorf.edu