Art
How Much Does an Adjunct Actually Make?
Poverty wages, scarce benefits, job insecurity, and difficulty to unionize. After a spreadsheet about adjunct salaries went viral, professors discuss why their struggle should matter to everyone.
Labor
In Brief
Adjunct Professors Share Salaries and Working Conditions in a New Spreadsheet
The anonymous list, launched by historian Erin Bartram, has garnered about 250 entries so far.
Film
A Small Town Reenacts the 1917 Deportation of a Thousand Striking Miners
The documentary Bisbee '17 deconstructs how we perform our idea of the past as it resurrects an unsavory episode in labor history.
In Brief
The Louvre Closes As Staffers Strike and Demand Solution to Overcrowding
Record attendance numbers at the Paris museum have not scaled with security personnel on staff, and employees say the situation is now dangerous.
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News
200 Workers at Vancouver Art Gallery Go on Strike [UPDATED]
The unionized workers, who have been without a contract since 2017, say the gallery privileges upper management at the expense of other employees.
News
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago Lowers Ticket Prices for Those Impacted by Gender Pay Gap
Starting next month, anyone who believes the gender pay gap has negatively impacted their earning potential can pay a discounted price for museum admissions. The new policy coincides with the opening of a traveling Laurie Simmons exhibition.
Art
In a Changing Berlin, Artists Face Rising Costs and an Inflated Gender Pay Gap
The figures in a new survey by a Berlin artists' association point to the general struggle among artists to support themselves through art in a city that is becoming less affordable every year.
Comics
A Theory About the Gender Pay Gap
One of my students recently presented a novel hypothesis for why women should be paid less than men.
Books
Poetry from the Picket Line
Two poets, veterans of university unionization campaigns, chart the growing crisis of the new intellectual working class
News
Faculty at UK Art Schools Strike to Protest Pension Cuts
On Wednesday, despite a snowstorm, students from the Courtauld Institute and other London art schools took part in a national strike organized by the University and College Union.
Art
Strike at Columbia College Chicago Spotlights Problems for Part-Time Faculty
The historic first part-time faculty union in the nation at Columbia College held the two-day strike to convey to the administration the seriousness of unresolved bargaining issues.
News
Strike Forces Centre Pompidou to Close for Fourth Consecutive Day [UPDATED]
The strike stems from a change to the status of the museums' workers set to go into effect on April 1.