Institutions of higher education espouse ideals of equity and inclusion; nonetheless, societal patterns of injustice occur within higher education. Precarious academic employment is a particularly blatant and egregious example. The practice of precarious academic employment is a form of structural injustice insofar as it compromises the NTT faculty members' prospects of realizing their conceptions of the good life. Their conditions of employment create practical and existential difficulties, which can be exacerbated by the effects of racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and oppression of transgender people. My hope is that by elucidating the conditions under which NTT faculty labor and ways that myths and biases serve to justify the status quo, we have a better starting point for developing collective strategies to improve these conditions.