As data assembled by The Chronicle show, the number of cases in which graduate students earn a living wage for a one-parent, one-child household is practically zero. When the coronavirus crisis came along, an already tense situation reached what might very well be a tipping point.
This collection includes essential essays and reporting on student strikes, adjunct unions, the academic labor market, and the personal devastation wrought by a system increasingly perceived as deeply unjust, with special attention to the effects of the coronavirus.