ABSTRACT
The case studies here are meant to delineate the ways in which academic activists have sought to resist the transformation of the academic profession and the academic workplace by seizing control of the debate surrounding higher education and the terms and conditions of employment for those laboring within. Not surprisingly, the diverse and rapid changes discussed in the first two sections have created innumerable challenges for those advocating and organizing for change in the academic workplace. While the calls to organize may have been familiar, the nature of academic work made clear that, in order to be successful, the techniques of organizing would have to be different.
