Re: [Pen-l] Charles Tilly firing people

[Laurence Shute <lshute@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How did he manage to fire people if he wasn't a dept. head?
Larry Shute
Economics Emeritus, Cal Poly Pomona

Louis Proyect wrote:
> I know it is unseemly to speak ill of the dead, but there is another 
> side to Columbia University sociology professor Charles Tilly who died 
> this week at the age of 78. I was pretty friendly with a sociology 
> professor named John Hartman who used to be a Pen-l subscriber. After 
> Tilly came in to Columbia around 10 years ago, the first thing he did 
> was not renew the contracts of John and a number of other tenure-track 
> professors. This was one of the ways that a university screws its 
> non-tenured employees. The other is using adjunct professors, who don’t 
> even get health insurance. John described Tilly to me as an academic 
> version of a mafia gangster, who put his own cronies into the department 
> as a way of boosting his own power. Maybe Tilly was applying the lessons 
> he learned from a 1985 article mentioned in the NY Times obit:
>
>
> The New York Times, May 2, 2008
> Charles Tilly, 78, Writer and a Social Scientist, Is Dead
> By DOUGLAS MARTIN
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> Dr. Tilly received many awards, the latest of which was the Albert O. 
> Hirschman Award from the Social Science Research Council this year. He 
> liked to brag that he managed never to hold an office in a professional 
> association *** or the chairmanship of a university department *** — though he 
> did head several research institutes.
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