Description
Edited by Jad Beidas, Emily Cyckowski, Davis Elengical, Piers Gelly, Jillian Gough, Jennifer Guevara, Ibrahim Khalil, and Sarah Kim
Working and Writing for Change
Series Editors: Steve Parks and Jessica Pauszek
Associate Editor: Justin Lewis
Information and Pricing
978-1-64317-602-4 (PDF, free download). © 2026 by New City Community Press. 112 pages, with bibliography and illustrations.
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What People Are Saying
Hoos Not Getting Paid is about much more than graduate workers’ financial struggles, although it’s not shy about those. Unlike similar books that center the voices of graduate workers, the fact this publication utilizes the podcast/interview form as well as the fact that the interviewers are undergraduate students elicit very different kinds of stories from conventional “scholarly” collections—stories that connect graduate and undergraduate student experiences, and that draw explicit connections to communities and institutions. —Seth Kahn, Professor of English, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
About This Book
The past few years have seen a massive wave of union drives, strikes, and other coordinated labor actions, from Starbucks to Hollywood, and universities are no exception. Across the country, graduate student workers are coming together to change their working conditions. In Hoos Not Getting Paid, we meet six unionized graduate student workers at the University of Virginia who are doing precisely that. (“Hoos” is short for “Wahoos,” which is the unofficial nickname of members of the UVA community.) But there’s a twist: this book was created by students in a first-year writing course at UVA. Working together with their professor, Piers Gelly, they reported, wrote, edited, mixed, and distributed an original podcast series featuring candid, searching conversations between themselves and these graduate student workers. This book shares those conversations, along with student-created discussion guides and appendices that encourage writing students and teachers to adopt similarly inquisitive practices about the labor conditions of their school. With help from this book—plus a little courage and curiosity—you’ll have everything you need to develop, produce, and distribute your own podcast project about the essential but often underpaid graduate student workers at your university.
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