Analysis of grad students and academic labor
Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System that Shapes their Lives. An excellent guide to keeping your integrity in grad school and organizing together. The book is especially helpful for people in the physical sciences with many stories about organizing at UC Irvine Physics. Full of humor, hope, and concrete steps to organizing within academia.
More Is Less: Making Sense of the UCSC Crisis, pamphlet by the Long Road Collective (2005)
Leveraging the Academy: Suggestions for Radical Grad Students and Radicals Considering Grad School, Chris Dixon and Alexis Shotwell
The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible, Marc Bousquet
The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney (2004)
Pyrrhic Victory at UC Santa Barbara: The Struggle for Labor's New Identity, Richard Sullivan
Visualize Academic Labor in the 1990s: Inventing an Activist Archive in Santa Barbara, Jeanne Scheper
Resources for TAs and other ASEs
A timesheet to keep track of the hours you work.
UAW 2865 contract with UC (2007 - 2009)
UAW-QUAD archives
Expand GSHIP, don't cut it! Sickin at Santa Cruz (2007):
Santa Cruz Union pub nights: