Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index
Introduction: Historical materialist rhetoric and the hermeneutics of valuation -- Historicizing the U.S. public research university: industrial capitalism and the professional ideal -- Monopoly capitalism, globalization, and university transformation: a plea against nostalgia -- The collusion of economic and cultural systems: globalization and university -- The rhetoric of university missions: globalizing economic consent, commodifying multiculturalism, and privatizing the social good -- Working-class professionalism: toward an historical materialist pedagogy
