While I still maintain a sympathy with both sides of the Grafton/Lemisch debate, it’s quite clear from the tape above that Jesse understands the problem better than most people do. There is no job crisis. There has been a deliberate restructuring of demand by people who want you to believe that the dearth of tenure-track jobs in history is a given, kind of like cold weather in Chicago in January.
More or Less Bunk
"History is more or less bunk." – Henry Ford, 25 May 1916.
- Home
- About Jonathan Rees
- Teaching with YouTube Posts
- Other Writings Online
- Representation and Rebellion
Follow me!:
The More or Less Bunk rss feeds
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Harry Lewis on Harvard hates you (and Coursera isn’t all that fond of you either).
- Jonathan Rees on Harvard hates you (and Coursera isn’t all that fond of you either).
- Bad Boy Scientist on Harvard hates you (and Coursera isn’t all that fond of you either).
- Harry Lewis on Harvard hates you (and Coursera isn’t all that fond of you either).
- Bad Boy Scientist on Harvard hates you (and Coursera isn’t all that fond of you either).
Academic Info
Blogroll
- 100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School
- Academe Blog
- Bookshelf Porn
- Changing Universities
- Edible Geography
- edwired
- Gerry Canavan
- Have Coffee Will Write
- How the University Works
- Lapham's Quarterly
- Music for Deckchairs
- Not of General Interest
- ProfHacker
- Remaking the University
- Rough Type
- Scott Martelle
- Scouting New York
- Talking Points Memo
- The Huffington Post
- The New Faculty Majority
- Think Progress
- Zunguzungu
History Links
- AHA Today
- Ari Kelman
- Dan Cohen
- Historiann
- History News Network
- In the Past Lane
- Jacksonian America
- Labor Online (LAWCHA)
- Religion in American History
- Teaching United States History
- Tenured Radical
- The Clutter Museum
- The Edge of the American West
- The Exchange
- The Hagley Library and Archives
- The Historical Society
- The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Contact Info
jonrees [at] alumni [dot] upenn [dot] edu
My Twitter Feed
- RT @drewloewe: Taking The Duke/Coursera Rhet/Comp I MOOC, Part 13 - Two things are going on for me in this MOOC right now:... http://t.co/C… 11 hours ago
- @hillmg1 @claudiakincaid Unbundling for thee but not for me doesn't strike you as a tad hypocritical? 20 hours ago
- "@MOOCNewsReviews: "I Can't Imagine Going Back" bit.ly/13Es4Yi" @hillmg1 @claudiakincaid Check this out too. It's all about him. 21 hours ago
- Superprofessors claim no responsibility for destroying jobs - chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcam… Sadly predictable. 21 hours ago
- @DrATP Prof., unless you happen to have a MOOC that you're working on... 1 day ago
Categories
- Academia
- Americana
- Art
- Australia
- Blogging
- Blogroll
- Books
- Business
- Education
- Food
- Food History
- Guest Posts
- Historic Preservation
- Historiography
- History and Current Events
- History Links
- Labor History
- Media
- Monty Python
- Movies
- Music
- New York City
- Other Writings
- Personal
- Phillies
- Photos
- Politics
- Progressive Era
- Slavery
- Teaching
- Technology
- Textbooks
- Uncategorized
- Video
- World War I
- World War II
[...] deliberate restructuring of demand has eliminated that possibility. Second is transparency. Everyone sees the quantity and the quality [...]
[...] my Twitter feed, this appears to be the blog post of the weekend. It describes a question from the Grafton-Lemisch jobs for historians session at last month’s AHA: The very first question from the floor came from a historian who was [...]
[...] the difficulty of recent Ph.D.s finding tenure track jobs is a reflection of a deliberate restructuring of demand, then the placement of those Ph.D.s has nothing to do with the worth of that education. The [...]
[...] of Ph.Ds? Check. Deliberate restructuring of demand? Check. Did I mention the probability of tens of thousands in student loan debt that can’t be [...]
[...] or tenure track: we are all in the same boat. This whole MOOC thing is just more of the same deliberate restructuring of demand in order to decrease labor and facilities cost. At least I have the option of riding out the [...]