“Not just for coal miners”: Unionization in U.S. art museums

IF 1 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Curator: The Museum Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI:10.1111/cura.12574
Amanda Tobin Ripley
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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 discourse as a mechanism for constructing or dismantling affective social boundaries. The shift from “museum professional” to “museum worker” signifies a redefinition of creative labor and museum work rooted in cross-class solidarity and bears implications for effective grassroots organizing and coalition-building for institutional and social change.

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本文考察了艺术博物馆工会工作者的集体身份转变。从一项针对博物馆工会成员的行动研究中提取数据,我认为,如今的博物馆工人在建立全面的工会时,明确地与工人阶级结盟,并接受“博物馆工人”的集体身份或群体内的成员身份。在分析这一身份标签时,我借鉴了布鲁斯·林肯关于话语作为构建或拆除情感社会边界的机制的理论。从“博物馆专业人员”到“博物馆工作者”的转变意味着对创造性劳动和博物馆工作的重新定义,植根于跨阶级团结,并对有效的基层组织和联盟建设产生影响,以促进体制和社会变革。
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