Ok, #AcademicTwitter, I was asked: what can tenured faculty do to help fix this crisis? Non-exhaustive list of suggestions (plz add): 1. Recognize that you are a worker in a corporation; 2. Change the mission of disciplinary associations or create new ones that focus on labor;

3. Reassert “shared governance”; 4. Unionize or lobby legislatures to change the laws that make this difficult

5. Get woke to the condition of contingent faculty members at your institution and use leverage / hierarchy to improve it. At least try before you tell me you throw up your hands & say you don’t have any power to do this;

6. Approach the problems with academic labor culture with an attitude of “what change can I make possible?” rather than “This [insert idea that would make precariat life just a little better] is hopeless & a nonstarter & so why even bother bc [insert reason]”

7. Don’t participate in the administration of programs at your university that use the labor of contingent faculty members in exploitative ways. Instead, ask participating contingent fac what improvements they need & insist that admin concede them before you agree.

8. Support grad students who want to do something outside academia & insist on full funding for grad students from uni. If admin won’t give full funding to humanities PhD students for at least 6-7 years, don’t admit any grad students until they do.

9. Seriously rethink the political economy of an intellectual production system that relies on university subsidized labor. Nobody is “paid” to do peer review; why should someone excluded from the benefits of the tt system do it? Maybe contingent should be paid if asked to do it.

10. Finally, tenured must recognize that you are not immune to the descaling of labor conditions. You have an interest here.

I am sure others will have suggestions too, beyond these 10.