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The making of the American creative class : New York's culture workers and twentieth-century consumer capitalism / Shannan Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Shannan, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Labor unions.
- Cultural industries--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Cultural industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (608 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- During most of the 20th century, the production of America's consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparalleled in the history of the modern United States. Within a few square miles were the headquarters of broadcast networks like NBC and CBS, the editorial offices of book and magazine publishers, major newspapers, and advertising and design agencies. Every day tens of thousands of writers, editors, artists, performers, technicians, secretaries, and other white-collar workers made advertisements, produced media content, and enhanced the appearance of goods in order to boost sales. While this centre of creativity has often been portrayed as a smoothly running machine, within these offices many white-collar workers challenged the managers and executives who directed their labour. This text examines these workers and New York's culture industries throughout the 20th century.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991264-5
- 0-19-094144-8
- 0-19-094145-6
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