Academic labor has never been more vulnerable to exploitation, or more galvanized into action. When graduate students at Yale University held a grade strike during the 1995-96 academic year, they were protesting policies such as downsizing, subcontracting, and outsourcing--strategies currently wreaking havoc on the larger U.S. workforce. In Part I of Will Teach for Food participants describe the Yale strike and examine what workers on other campuses can learn from this action. In Part II activists and scholars place the challenge to academic workers in the context of U.S. labor history and assess the impact of university corporatization on the communities that surround them and on higher education as a whole. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.