There are many good points in this article, and I agree about the general gist that adjuncts are not well-served in this situation. That being said, I think that the article sets up an artificial binary between adjuncts and tenured faculty. There is a whole third leg of employment that is contingent full-time teaching. That is to say, one-year professorships, and lecturer&#x2F;instructor&#x2F;preceptor positions that employ people full-time, but without assurance of continued employment in the year to come (indeed, often with an explicitly NON-renewable contract). There is a large chunk of academic teaching from faculty who make an okay (not great) income for a year, but have no security for years to come, and are forced to go through an extremely grueling application process year after year (see this article from Slate.com on more about that process: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;education&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;how_do_professors_get_hired_the_academic_job_search_explained.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;education&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;how_do_...</a>).