Museum unions and social change: reopening with solidarity
Museological Review
; 26:148-158, 2022.
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in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-2318606
ABSTRACT
Over the past two years, an explosion of organised labour activity has emerged across the museum industry in the United States. As the museum world adjusts to the 'new normal' of pandemic life, it is essential that workers continue to join forces against the rampant precarity in the cultural sector, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the often-disastrous managerial responses to government shut-downs. Central to the healing of the sector after the trauma of pandemic-related layoffs and furloughs - and critical to the success of museums in the 21st century - is the shift in the self-identification of art museum workers away from the conceptualization of creative labour as removed from 'other' kinds of labour. This psycho-social transition on a mass scale opens the possibility of a movement of 'liberatory unionism' that can work to heal not just the museum sector, but harness worker power in support of intersectional social justice.
Arts; Entertainment and Cultural Heritage [UU630]; Leisure; Recreation and Tourism Economics [EE119]; Labour and Employment [EE900]; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology [UU485]; labour; workers; museums; social change; trade unions; man; USA; APEC countries; high income countries; North America; America; OECD Countries; very high Human Development Index countries; Homo; Hominidae; primates; mammals; vertebrates; Chordata; animals; eukaryotes; labor; United States of America
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