Workers and Work in the Arts

Definitional Challenges and Approaches to Collective Action Among Arts and Creative Workers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2362500
AutoresRachel Skaggs (0000-0002-1041-8780, The Ohio State University, autor correspondente), Tania Aparicio (Arts Administration Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA)
Ano2023
Volume50
Fascículo3
Páginas436-444
Data de publicação2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWork and Occupations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0730-8884 • E-ISSN: 1552-8464
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07308884231162957
OpenAlexW4323668142
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas9

In response to an era of transformation that deeply impacts workers and increased attention to worker collective action in the United States, this article documents some definitional and boundary challenges that constrain and facilitate unionization, collective action, and mutualism in arts and creative work. Arts workers are present across all strata of the labor market. Categories, such as art, commerce, craft, and entertainment, have often divided arts workers, blurring the boundaries around what work is and who counts as a worker. Despite these challenges, arts and culture workers present a compelling case for the promise and progress of collective action in an unwieldy occupational space

Art · Collective action · Craft · Creative industries · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Management and Organizational Studies