Shannan Clark

The Making of the American Creative Class

New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism

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Produktbeschreibung

The Making of the American Creative Class narrates the history of workers in New York's publishing, advertising, design, and broadcasting industries and their efforts to improve their working conditions, set against the backdrop of the economic dislocations of twentieth-century capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 944g
• ISBN-13: 9780199731626
• ISBN-10: 0199731624
• Artikelnr.: 59080823

Autorenporträt

Shannan Clark teaches history at Montclair State University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Introduction: The Labor of Culture
* Ch. 1 White-Collar Work, the Culture Industries, and the Origins of
the Creative Class
* Ch. 2 The Emergence of White-Collar Unionism in New York's Culture
Industries
* Ch. 3 Challenging the Culture of Consumer Capitalism
* Ch. 4 Designing Radicalism: The Popular Front, Modernist Aesthetics,
and the Problem of Patronage
* Ch. 5 New York's White-Collar Unions during the Second World War and
Reconversion
* Ch. 6 The Cold War in New York's Culture Industries
* Ch. 7 Creativity and Consumerism in the Affluent Society
* Ch. 8 The Cultural Deindustrialization of New York
* Epilogue: New York's Culture Industries in the Twilight of Fordism
* Appendix
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index