In his response to Mowitt, Morgan Adamson sharply reminds us that working conditions and remuneration for work, not to mention layoffs, hiring freezes and slashing of benefits, certainly are pressing concerns. Offering a quick survey of some of the horrid details of the work expected of research assistants in science labs, Adamson also softens the distinction implied in Mowitt’s focus on the humanities as against the sciences.
Articles by Morgan Adamson
\Morgan Adamson is a lecturer in the department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. Her research is focused on visual culture and critical financial studies. She has also been active in writing and organizing around issues of university labor, and co-organized a series of conferences at the University of Minnesota on the crisis of higher education.\