Park publishes chapter in ‘Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities’

Park publishes chapter in ‘Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities’

Sungok Reina Park, School of Teaching and Learning, published a chapter in the book Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities, edited by Ishmael Munene (Lexington Books, 2018). The book presents organizing strategies for contingent faculty, providing a thorough and comprehensive view of the contingent labor movement across the globe. Given the hierarchical culture of Korean society, academic neophytes have historically been reluctant to raise their voices to create more equitable working conditions. Park’s chapter, entitled The Beginnings of Resistance among Part-time Instructors in South Korea, discusses the part-time faculty seizing the initiative in advocating for needed changes.