Download or read book Inside the Teaching Machine written by Catherine Chaput and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Teaching Machine argues that the U.S. public research university has always been a vital component of the capitalist political economy. Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments often ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy.