More than just a Job? Towards a History of Work in the Cultural Economy

这个计划中的网络将历史学家和来自邻近学科的学者聚集在一起，从历史的角度对文化经济--包括音乐、电影和文学出版--进行研究。该倡议指出了现有研究中的两个空白：一方面，尽管在过去的25年里，社会科学家对“创造性劳动”的关注很大，但他们的研究显然是有先见之明的。该网络的第一个目标是通过对文化工作及其研究进行历史化来解决这种现实主义。另一方面，历史学家在很大程度上忽视了文化部门的工作，不管劳动历史提出了研究工业工资劳动以外的工作的事实。自19世纪末出现以来，该网络从不同的角度研究当代文化经济中的工作，包括文化史、社会史和法律史以及知识史，其第二个目标是建立一个主题，以回应新的劳动史的要求，并承诺更广泛地对后工业工作提出重要见解。此外，该网络还将帮助保存重要的社会科学档案。它将通过创造机会介绍、讨论和发表他们的工作来支持目前研究相关主题的年轻学者。最后，该网络将促进该领域后续研究项目的倡议。

The planned network brings together historians with scholars from neighbouring disciplines to put work in the cultural economy - including music, film, and literary publishing - in a historical perspective. The initiative identifies two gaps in existing research: On the one hand, while “creative labour” has attracted considerable attention of social scientists in the past twenty-five years, their research is noticeably presentist. The first aim of the network is to address this presentism by historicising both cultural work and its study. On the other hand, historians have largely neglected work in the cultural sector, regardless of the fact that labour history proposes to research work beyond industrial wage labour. Studying work in the contemporary cultural economy since its emergence in the late nineteenth century from diverse angles, including cultural, social, and legal history as well as the history of knowledge, the second aim of the network is to establish a topic that answers the demands of a new labour history and promises important insights into post-industrial work more generally. In addition, the network will help with preserving important social-scientific archives. It will support young scholars who presently study relevant topics by creating opportunities to present, discuss and publish their work. Finally, the network will promote initiatives for follow-up research projects in the field.