{"title":"Disciplinarity and Exploitation: Compositionists as Good Professionals","authors":"James H. Sledd","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I7.184511","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Why was the emergence of \"composition studies,\" the achievement of \"disciplinarity\" by a fortunate minority of compositionists, neatly paralleled by the deepening exploitation of composition's most numerous teachers, the teaching assistants, part-timers, and other contingent workers? Why did a few directors \"get grants, rank, and tenure\" while growing numbers of classroom teachers remained overworked, underpaid, and insecure? Why did the conventional ambition of good professionals end in bossdom?","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2013-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I7.184511","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Why was the emergence of "composition studies," the achievement of "disciplinarity" by a fortunate minority of compositionists, neatly paralleled by the deepening exploitation of composition's most numerous teachers, the teaching assistants, part-timers, and other contingent workers? Why did a few directors "get grants, rank, and tenure" while growing numbers of classroom teachers remained overworked, underpaid, and insecure? Why did the conventional ambition of good professionals end in bossdom?