TY - JOUR
T1 - Against Normalcy
T2 - A Collective Testimony of Student Workers Organizing during the Pandemic
AU - Solis, Gabriel Antonio
AU - Balderas, Tania L.
AU - Pereira, Iuri Bauler
AU - Cooney, Samantha R.
AU - Gao, Cynthia Yuan
AU - Helps, David
AU - Malczynski, Ramona R.
AU - Mincks, Emma B.
AU - Plowright, Isobel
AU - Ukockis, Joseph A.
AU - Whitmer, Lauren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc., 2023.
PY - 2023/7/3
Y1 - 2023/7/3
N2 - In the Spring of 2020, the onset of the global pandemic intensified existing inequalities, but also accelerated organizing within some of the most precarious economic sectors. The neoliberal university was no exception to this general trend, and from 2020 until 2022, student workers organized for union contracts, just pandemic responses, independent arbitration for harassment and improved conditions at their workplaces. In those years, while neoliberal universities issued empty calls for community, and a prompt return to normalcy, student workers mobilized themselves and won unprecedented gains from their institutions, rejecting administrative pleas for the defense of the status quo. The following Report from the Field, details the struggle of student workers organizing from 2020 to 2022 at the University of New Mexico, the University of Michigan, New York University, and Columbia University, and offers a collectively authored reflection on the challenges, victories and future concerns of its respective movements.
AB - In the Spring of 2020, the onset of the global pandemic intensified existing inequalities, but also accelerated organizing within some of the most precarious economic sectors. The neoliberal university was no exception to this general trend, and from 2020 until 2022, student workers organized for union contracts, just pandemic responses, independent arbitration for harassment and improved conditions at their workplaces. In those years, while neoliberal universities issued empty calls for community, and a prompt return to normalcy, student workers mobilized themselves and won unprecedented gains from their institutions, rejecting administrative pleas for the defense of the status quo. The following Report from the Field, details the struggle of student workers organizing from 2020 to 2022 at the University of New Mexico, the University of Michigan, New York University, and Columbia University, and offers a collectively authored reflection on the challenges, victories and future concerns of its respective movements.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0147547923000108
DO - 10.1017/S0147547923000108
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85167699709
SN - 0147-5479
VL - 104
SP - 209
EP - 223
JO - International Labor and Working-Class History
JF - International Labor and Working-Class History
ER -