Workers and Work in the Arts: Definitional Challenges and Approaches to Collective Action Among Arts and Creative Workers
本文探讨了美国艺术与创意工作者在集体行动中面临的定义和边界挑战,分析了这些挑战如何影响工会化与互助行动,对研究创意劳动和劳工运动的学者有参考价值。
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.