Uncertain futures, doubled freedoms, and a defense of misreading Marx

Sometimes, while reading about the state of higher education or just walking across campus, I will see, in a flash, a scene from my research on the Eastman Kodak Company coming to life.It refracts through the layoffs and restructurings, the new measures of productivity, the early retirement incentives, and the departments eliminated and reorganized."I never know if I'll have a job tomorrow," a Kodak employee told me on a tour of the company's mostly shuttered film factory in Rochester, New York.He turned on his heels and, whistling, led me down a dark hallway to a derelict emulsion making room.Using our phones as torches, he showed me a giant steel kettle that workers would have used to brew photographic emulsion and a computer monitor with its screen smashed out.Kodak declared bankruptcy in 2012.The Kodak that emerged still makes small amounts of