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The Educated Underclass: Students and the Promise of Social Mobility

The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

Becca Spindel Bassett
Harvard Educational Review December 2019, 89 (4) 695-699; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-89.4.695
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    (1963). A challenge to affluence. New York: Pantheon.
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