How the University Works--the big picture for the AFSCME strike

How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation is a book and a blog by Marc Bousquet. He brings a class analysis to the business of higher education as a workplace. He is also the editor of The Politics of Information, an e-book you can download and read at altx e-books
Here's the blurb for How the University Works, published by NYU Press:

This is the seamy underbelly of higher education — a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates all work long hours for fast-food wages.

Tenure-track positions are at an all-time low, with adjuncts and graduate students teaching the majority of courses.

Burdened by debt, millions of undergraduates work multiple part-time jobs but quit before they earn a degree.

Meanwhile college presidents and basketball coaches rake in millions, even at schools where fewer than half of students are able to earn a degree in six years.

Assessing the costs of the corporate university at every level, How the University Works is urgent reading for anyone interested in the fate of higher education.