Working Mass

OUT NOW: From Palestinian-Jordanian philosopher and adjunct professor Ashraf Hazeyen:

"The adjunct belongs intensely to the classroom: to the students, the discussion, the readings, the long hours of preparation, and the fragile moment when an idea begins to matter for someone. Their labor turns institutional promises into lived experience while their own place inside the institution remains uncertain.

They assemble academic life from borrowed offices, temporary schedules, short appointments, and partial recognition. The instability spreads across space, time, memory, and the long movement through which serious thought gathers shape and continuity.

Spatial instability begins where academic life is expected to continue after class. The adjunct teaches in the building, walks its hallways, answers students’ questions, writes recommendations, and carries much of the university’s daily teaching responsibility while remaining temporary inside the institution they help sustain.

Their labor fills the space with meaning, yet the campus gives that labor only a passing address. A student stays after class to discuss a paper, a family crisis, or a sentence in a difficult text that opened a new way of seeing. The conversation happens beside the classroom door, over a library table, in a shared room between appointments, or later inside an email thread. This is the geography of adjunct labor: a living presence carried through borrowed rooms, hallway conversations, and whatever corner the campus leaves available."

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GREENFIELD - are prepared to strike at Franklin County's only hospital, citing poor and unsafe patient-to-staff ratios and threats from hospital management to hire non-union floater scabs during negotiations.

"Nurses are the ones who keep us alive. This is part of an ongoing war on the working class." -Ethel Everett, incoming president of the .alf

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