Career volunteering as good work in do-it-yourself heritage institutions
A serious leisure perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2399580 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Z Cantillon (0000-0001-9869-217X, Western Sydney University, corresponding author), Baker (0000-0003-3872-6889, Griffith University), Sarah Baker (0000-0003-2304-6573, Griffith University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 356-371 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1440783320911450 |
| OpenAlex | W3011235922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 37 |
In recent decades, the heritage sector has become increasingly precarious amid the rise of austerity neoliberalism, impacting both the efficacy of heritage institutions and the labour experiences of those who run them. While scholarly literature has regularly examined these impacts for mainstream heritage institutions, little work considers volunteer-run, do-it-yourself (DIY) community heritage organisations. This article takes a serious leisure perspective to explore what constitutes 'good work' for volunteers in a DIY heritage institution, the Australian Jazz Museum (AJM). Drawing on interviews with 26 AJM volunteers, we discuss some of the 'rewards' and 'costs' of career volunteering in this institution. Our research suggests that the conditions for good work are contingent on the efforts of volunteers in management roles, while the conditions for bad work are heightened by austerity policies affecting funding opportunities. The case study also highlights the need to consider the value of work beyond remuneration
Austerity · Economic growth · Economics · Institution · Mainstream · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Remuneration · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Work (physics) · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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Rich picture building
Organisational sustainability in Australia’s volunteer-managed community heritage organisations
Leveraging popular music heritage as sustainable cultural infrastructure in small cities
Exploring the volunteer experience–perseverance–organisational sustainability nexus in Australia’s community heritage sector
Heritage volunteerism, cultural journalism and participatory placemaking
The Australian Jazz Museum – All That Aussie Jazz
The Serious Leisure Perspective
Careers in Serious Leisure
Meaningful Work and Market Socialism
Volunteering
Creative Labour
Rethinking DIY culture in a post-industrial and global context
Modernity and Self-Identity
Reverberations of a Crisis
Volunteer motivation in heritage railways
Managing Heritage Volunteers
Careers in serious leisure
The Our House DIY Club
Notes towards a typology of the DIY institution
Safeguarding Australia’s Community Heritage Sector
A Portrait of Failure
Serious leisure and the DIY approach to heritage
DIY Heritage Institutions as Third Places
The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure
Toward Conceptual Advancement of Costs and Perseverance within the Serious Leisure Perspective
Museum Volunteering
Volunteers in the heritage sector
Endangerment-driven heritage volunteering
On Heritage Ontologies
Extending Conceptual Boundaries
More Than a 'Little Act of Kindness'? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |