i'm not sure that's the same thing. subcontractors can be whole companies,
even if they're only a handful of people, but they can be much bigger. also,
they are often paid well.
right?

and there's no analog to tenure.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Carl Dassbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In other "industries," its called subcontracting.
>
> Jim Devine wrote:
>
>> Louis Proyect wrote:
>>
>>
>>> (... All
>>> in all, the fucking rightwing shits who run the universities, especially
>>> the
>>> big state universities and the community colleges, won't be satisfied
>>> until
>>> 90 percent of all teachers are adjuncts. They'll hold on to 10 percent
>>> tenured for public relations.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> there's another benefit for management of having _some_ tenured
>> professors: they're better supervisors than managers are because they
>> know something about the subject being taught. In the case of private
>> colleges and universities, the Yeshiva decision says tenured
>> professors are part of management and thus can't unionize.
>>
>>
>>
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