Edubusiness comes to the academy: the virtual university and the threat to academic labor

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This article evaluates the potential effects of distance education and virtual universities on traditional universities and colleges. The authors assert that distance education is driven by proprietary corporations and that this model of virtual teaching and learning is threatening tradition academic labor relations by: encouraging managerial control over teaching; the hiring of part-time teachers without benefits; the breaking down of academic skills by reducing teaching to course development, delivery and grading outside of any larger context; and finally the development of a lucrative market for educational software.

Evaluation, Universities and colleges, College faculty, Distance education, University of Phoenix Inc., Jones International University

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Does the National Labor Board work for labor?

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This article provides an interview with former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, William Gould IV. Issues discussed include worker's rights and the threat the right-wing Republicans' pose to the improvement of labor rights.

Social policy, Interview, Republican Party (United States), Employee rights, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Gould, William B., IV

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The teamsters' overnight strike: Hoffa tested in novel labor conflict

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The author examines a series of Teamster campaigns to lead strikes against the largest group of non-union truckers working at Overnite Transportation Co.

Truck drivers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Hoffa, James P., Overnite Transportation Co.

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