Power Despite Precarity is a book to build with. It arrives just in time, amid campus labor upsurges and the formation of a promising new progressive labor coalition Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), where there is a new chance for strategizing a national movement.1 Drawing from lives of sustained practice, authors Joe Berry and Helena Worthen connect realms usually siloed apart. They sift through the fine grain of tactics, laws, and contracts, but at the same time offer sweeping analyses of adjunct experience, political strategy, and historical change.
READ: Joe Ramsey in New Politics, “25 Truths to Build Campus Power Despite Precarity”