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Gaskell, Ghosts, and the Common Good
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2024
Abstract
How can tenure-track allies to adjunct workers contribute in our new era of anti-tenure attacks and surging labor activism? Two of the founders of Tenure for the Common Good find guidance in Elizabeth Gaskell's representations of class relations. Gaskell reveals the pervasive entrapment of exploitative systems and suggests ways that privileged participants can serve as intermediaries, amplifying the voices of those who need to be heard. Drawing on servant relations in Cranford and laborer relations in the North and South, we find warrant for a new visibility in the fight against adjunctification.
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- Research Article
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- Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 51 , Special Issue 4: Victorianist Activism: Past, Present, and Future , Winter 2023 , pp. 569 - 576
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- Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press
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