The Lives of Campus Custodians - Peter Magolda (2016) - Lives and work conditions of invisible support staff in the university

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[...] (2016). The lives of campus custodians: insights into corporatization and civic disengagement in the academy. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC. [...]

[...] Thus the book is heavily loaded with criticisms and forgets about trying to improve the lives of the custodians. Lastly, the custodians that Magolda interviewed were mostly white. This shows that the book does not have much to address racial inequality yet it is one of the main reasons for inequality practices among custodians since these blue-collar jobs are taken by non-whites. Hence, I strongly believe Magolda should have interviewed many nonwhites since they understand the issues well since they are the ones experiencing them. Reference Magolda, P. M. [...]

[...] Peter is right to fight for the visibility of the support staff on the campuses as he advocates for their better treatment from the above. He fights against the oppression of this support staff and urges that the campus authorities put into practice the values they teach in schools that are inclusion and equity. Just as the anti-oppressive research seeks social justice where the researcher has identified some form of social injustice, that's how the author of The Lives of Campus Custodian tries to advocate for the rights of the support staff on the campus that they should be treated equally like the rest of the stuff in the university (Magolda, 2016). [...]

[...] Anti-oppressive research aims at creating awareness to provide knowledge to the readers. It deals with seeking social justice and taking it into their own heart to ensure that there are some societal changes. In order to adopt the anti-oppressive kind of research, one has to identify a situation that results in social injustice and come up with ways to solve the problem. In the book, the lives of campus Custodian by Peter Magolda, the issue of the oppression that the support staff of the campuses goes through is addressed (Magolda, 2016). [...]

[...] The Lives of Campus Custodians - Peter Magolda (2016) - Lives and work conditions of invisible support staff in the university Introduction The Lives of Campus Custodians is a book written by Peter Mark Magolda, a person who describes himself as an "educational anthropologist." In his book, Magolda tries to bring out the lives and work conditions of certain support staff in the university who are on many occasions rendered invisible. These are the people who keep the campus environment clean; they clean the offices, hallways, lecture halls, washrooms and public places. [...]