Professionalization in the Creative Sector: Policy, Collective Action, and Institutionalization
- 6h 44m
- Margaret J. Wyszomirski, WoongJo Chang
- Taylor and Francis
- 2024
This book seeks to better understand the processes and influences that have driven professionalization in the arts. It develops an analytical framework that examines how processes of professionalization that typically influence and shape work conditions and occupational status are, in the creative sector, augmented by atypical worker efforts and choices to self-structure their protean careers.
The book brings together a collection of works that explore the specific trajectories of professionalization in a variety of creative occupations as well as the formative processes that work across many creative occupations. In particular, the scholarship presented focuses on the interaction of three key variables: field growth and institutionalization, mutual benefit organization within fields and occupations, and the intervention of cultural policy to validate and foster professional support structures. In the broader context of expanding globalization, growing awareness of diversity, and tectonic shifts in technology, this volume unveils research-based implications for cultural policy, cultural workers, and cultural organizations.
This book will be of interest to researchers, creative professionals, as well as undergraduate and graduate-level students in the fields of arts administration and culture.
About the Author
Margaret J. Wyszomirski is Professor Emerita of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University, USA.
WoongJo Chang is Associate Professor of Arts and Cultural Management at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea.
In this Book
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Professionalization in the Creative Sector: Processes and Trends
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Sustaining Atypical Professions: Professional Structuration in the Creative Sector
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Cultural Policy Tools and Rising Professionalism in American Arts, 1963–1996
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Passion and Profession: Individual Artists, Professional Development, and the Role of Foundations
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The Dual Professional: The Artist/Manager in Small Arts Organizations
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Strategic Planning for the Creative Professional: A Curriculum Proposal for Career Development Design
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Actors’ Equity Association and the Professionalization of the Acting Vocation
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The Fractured Professionalization in Arts Education
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Cultural Value and Professionalization of Emerging Contemporary Artists
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Strategic or Struggling?: Professionalizing Philanthropy in Nonprofit Arts Organizations
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Performing Arts Center Managers: A Crucial Profession in Community Performing Arts Sectors
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“I Am a Professional Dancer”: The Case of Professionalization in Disability Arts
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Making a Buck Through Blockchain: Artist Entrepreneurship in the Artworld
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Epilogue: Challenges for Creative Professionalism
