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• W94530503 abstract "I have been thinking about some of the issues Bruce Horner raises in Redefining Work and Value for Writing Program Administration since about 1980 when I first became a full-time Writing Instructor (WI) with nine classes a year, 25 students per class, at a salary of about 13,000 dollars per annum. I thought about these issues even more and more systematically when, in the mid-1980s, I became involved with the UC AFT, a union representing the interests of all non-tenured lecturers employed by the University of California. And, right now, as I look ahead and can see retirement almost on the horizon, I am thinking about work in a more personal way. What have I been doing for the past 25 or so years? What was its value? The way I answer those questions has important implications for how I feel about the life I have led. But I can't answer these questions easily. Part of my problem?one that may give me a slightly different take on the questions Horner raises? is that I come from a working-class background. My father was a bricklayer, one of my brothers lays brick, another drove a beer truck for 14 years, and another worked for the post office until his back gave out. In light of this background and during those down moments at the end of a quarter when I feel all I have managed to do is move a pile of sand from one arbitrary point to another, I wonder if what I do for a living is work at all. What I do for a living is talk. I am a professional talker, and I get paid to do this because I have acquired one of those credentials (a PhD in literature) that afforded me entry into one of those middle-class profes sions, albeit one not so highly respected. I feel a bit troubled when Horner seems to argue that WIs should not define the value of their work as the selling of a skill (170-71). This definition, Horner suggests, may devalue the work of the WI by turning it into a commodity. But what has my brother the bricklayer done, but sell a skill going on 25 years now? Am I to infer that work based on the selling of a skill is somehow inferior or less than work not defined as the selling of a skill? And how can this be, when in a good year without much bad" @default.
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• W94530503 title "We Can't Work It Out: The Alienated Labor of the WPA and the WI" @default.
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