Amanda Tobin Ripley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3081045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Tobin Ripley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda Tobin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ripley |
| SIGNATURE | RIPLEY A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-7213-0178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bargaining at the Art Museum
This paper seeks to identify the explicit and implicit equity-focused provisions that nascent art museum unions build into legally enforceable contracts. Using a framework of social reproduction feminism, this paper draws from document analysis and qualitative interviews to argue that by laying the foundation for more equitable living wages, safer work experiences, and greater control over museum operations, museum workers are advancing social ju…
“But the pay was horrible
This paper analyzes how contemporary art museum workers in the U.S. are advancing intersectional social justice through their labor organizing and demands for a living wage. The mixed-methods study uses social reproduction theory to situate museum work as exploited labor and to examine how this contemporary unionization wave is fighting for a reconfigured museum field that is simultaneously pro-worker, anti-racist, and feminist. The analysis focu…
Teaching Labor History in Art and Design
Men! Let's Stick Together This Time”
This article highlights key eras of labor organizing among art museum workers in the United States, revealing a long tradition of radical reimaginings of the cultural sector and society writ large. Drawing on archival research, the article examines the earlier struggles and successes of the 1930s, when the Brooklyn Museum Unit of the Communist Party urged its members to “stick together this time. It's the one and only method that gets results,” t…
The museum education job taxonomy
The Museum Educator Job Taxonomy assesses the status of the field of museum education in the United States by collecting and analyzing data on the varied job titles that museum educators hold. Drawing from a field-wide survey disseminated in 2023, this study documents and analyzes the diversity of titles within the museum education sector, identifying consequences on the material practices and experiences of museum educators. Finding suggests lit…
“Not just for coal miners”
This paper examines a collective identity shift among unionizing art museum workers. Pulling data from an action research study of museum union members, I argue that museum workers today are explicitly aligning themselves with working classes in building wall‐to‐wall labor unions and embracing the collective identity, or membership within the group, of “museum worker.” In analyzing this identity label, I draw from Bruce Lincoln's theories on disc…
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“Not just for coal miners”
This paper examines a collective identity shift among unionizing art museum workers. Pulling data from an action research study of museum union members, I argue that museum workers today are explicitly aligning themselves with working classes in building wall‐to‐wall labor unions and embracing the collective identity, or membership within the group, of “museum worker.” In analyzing this identity label, I draw from Bruce Lincoln's theories on disc…
Men! Let's Stick Together This Time”
This article highlights key eras of labor organizing among art museum workers in the United States, revealing a long tradition of radical reimaginings of the cultural sector and society writ large. Drawing on archival research, the article examines the earlier struggles and successes of the 1930s, when the Brooklyn Museum Unit of the Communist Party urged its members to “stick together this time. It's the one and only method that gets results,” t…
The museum education job taxonomy
The Museum Educator Job Taxonomy assesses the status of the field of museum education in the United States by collecting and analyzing data on the varied job titles that museum educators hold. Drawing from a field-wide survey disseminated in 2023, this study documents and analyzes the diversity of titles within the museum education sector, identifying consequences on the material practices and experiences of museum educators. Finding suggests lit…
Bargaining at the Art Museum
This paper seeks to identify the explicit and implicit equity-focused provisions that nascent art museum unions build into legally enforceable contracts. Using a framework of social reproduction feminism, this paper draws from document analysis and qualitative interviews to argue that by laying the foundation for more equitable living wages, safer work experiences, and greater control over museum operations, museum workers are advancing social ju…
“But the pay was horrible
This paper analyzes how contemporary art museum workers in the U.S. are advancing intersectional social justice through their labor organizing and demands for a living wage. The mixed-methods study uses social reproduction theory to situate museum work as exploited labor and to examine how this contemporary unionization wave is fighting for a reconfigured museum field that is simultaneously pro-worker, anti-racist, and feminist. The analysis focu…
Teaching Labor History in Art and Design
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (5 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (3 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art Education and Development (1 work) · Art History and Market Analysis (1 work) · Blueprint (1 work) · Capitalism (1 work) · Collective action (1 work)