Research

Work & Occupations Special Issue

Our group has published a collection of 5 ethnographic studies of the teaching assistant labor process as a special issue of Work and Occupations. The articles are now available online and will be published in the February 2024 issue of Work and Occupations.

"Introduction: Laboring in the Extractive University"

Michael Burawoy, Margaret Eby, Thomas Gepts, Justin Germain, Natalie Pasquinelli, Elizabeth Torres Carpio

"Street-Level Educators: The Selective Recognition of Students and Invisible TA Labor"

Elizabeth Torres Carpio

"Professor-in-Training: Status Control of the Teaching Assistant"

Natalie Pasquinelli

"Enchanting Pedagogy: Creating Labor Games in the Extractive University"

Justin Germain

"The TA Time Bind: The Arrhythmic Dilemmas of Research and Teaching"

Thomas Gepts

"The Power of Silence: Anxiety and Autonomy in TA Labor"

Margaret Eby