Date:         Tue, 07 Oct 97 20:42:42 EDT
From: Alan Davidson <DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject:      oops -- underemployment in academe
To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU
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Since I have switched to digest form (it is easier to get stuff done
that way), I didn't notice that I reposted something which had already
been posted.  I do think, while it doesn't necessarily state anything we
don't already know -- it does situate the issue in terms of broader
political-economic forces.  The fact is, if every retiring/deceased faculty
member in Sociology (or any of the social sciences/humanities) was even
replaced on a 1 to l basis (as opposed to through the use of adjuncts),
a great deal of the underemployment most of us Ph.D.'s face would be
alleviated.