The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism

The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism
ISBN-10
0199731624
ISBN-13
9780199731626
Category
Cultural industries
Pages
608
Language
English
Published
2020-12-02
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Shannan Clark

Description

White-collar work, the culture industries, and the origins of the creative class -- The emergence of white-collar unionism in New York's culture industries -- Challenging the culture of consumer capitalism -- Designing radicalism: the popular front, modernist aesthetics, and the problem of patronage -- New York's white-collar unions during the second world war and reconversion -- The cold war in New York's culture industries -- Creativity and consumerism in the affluent society -- The cultural deindustrialization of New York.

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