Teaching Labor History in Art and Design: Capitalism and the Creative Industries [Paperback]

1. Addressing the History of Capitalism for Artists and Designers? Part 1: Professionalism??2.?The Peculiarities of Teaching a Course on Luxury? 3. Whose Design History Matters? The Hidden History of the Fashion Intermediaries Behind Everyday Products? 4. Negotiating Capitalism on the Silver Screen for Film Students??Part 2: Compensation??5. War Stories : Labor Conditions in the Apparel Industry from 1980 to 2010? 6.? Working Women: A Case for Teaching Critiques of Racial Capitalism to Fashion Students? 7.?How We Get the Work Done: Helping Students Understand Labor and Costs in Art & Design Schools??Part 3: Equality? 8. Extracurricular Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire? 9.?Industry without Industry: Seeing Labor in the Fashion and Garment Industries in Postwar New York City? 10.?Analyzing the Bauhaus in Business and Labor History for American Art and Design Students??Part 4: Adaptability? 11.?Can Mindfulness and Compassion Coincide with Capitalism?? 12. Notes from a Black Professor Teaching Fashion, Racial Justice, and Equity? 13.?The Ruth Finley Collection: Teaching the Labor of Fashion with Digital Humanities?

Drawing from American history, fashion design, visual culture, museum studies, and womens history, among others, this book explores the challenges, rewards and benefits of teaching business and the labor history of art and design professions to those in higher education.

With the rebellion of creative workers in museums, design studios, newsrooms, and Hollywood, this collection on the teaching of labor history comes just in time. In offering innovative pedagogy with fascinating case studies and powerful critique, Pyun, Quan, and their contributors break down that old dichotomy between art and labor. Luxury has come with a cost to those who make beauty possible. Chapters address the place of art and design in lƒˆ