Marc Bousquet's How the University Works should be required reading for anyone with an interest in the future of higher education, including administrators, faculty members, graduate students, and-even more significantly-undergraduates and their parents. -Thomas Hart Benton, The Chronicle of Higher Education How the University Works is a serious wake-up call for the entire profession, and, based on what I overheard at the 2007 MLA book fair, Bousquet is about to emerge as the Al Gore of higher education. Thomas Hart Benton, The Chronicle of Higher Education Marc Bousquet is the most trenchant theorist of the current academic labor situation, and How the University Works is the best study of academic labor conditions in the U.S. since the 1970s. It is thoroughly and creatively researched, theoretically bold, often mercifully frank, and frequently poignant in its arguments and findings. Vincent B. Leitch, General Editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism As much as we think