 Faculty at Work and the Conversation of Academic Livesreviewed by Steven Weiland - 1997  Title: Faculty at Work and the Conversation of Academic LivesAuthor(s): Robert T. Blackburn, Janet H. Lawrence Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore ISBN: 080184942X, Pages: , Year: 1995 Search for book at Amazon.com When Robert Hughes (1993) called the United States a “culture of complaint” in his acclaimed book by that name he included professors for their desire for more recognition than they deserved, given their self-satisfied isolation from life away from campus and their disciplines. Still, if many professors feel entitled to a complaint, some recognize their good fortune. Near the end of his contribution to a new collection of personal essays by professors with working-class backgrounds (This Fine Place), sociologist Michael Schwalbe of North Carolina State University speaks with candor and pleasure of his circumstances: I enjoy this life. I’m not split between an unfree world of working for someone else and a separate home world where I can do what I want. Sure, there’s some work to do in this job, things I’d rather not do. But this is small stuff, and it’s rarely dirty or dangerous. So even if students,... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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