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邻近学科的学者聚集在一起，从历史的角度研究文化经济——包括音乐、电影和文学出版。该倡议指出了现有研究中的两个空白：一方面，虽然“创造性劳动”在过去25年里吸引了社会科学家的大量关注，但他们的研究明显是存在的。该网络的第一个目标是通过将文化工作及其研究历史化来解决这种存在主义。另一方面，历史学家在很大程度上忽视了文化部门的工作，而不顾劳动史建议研究工业雇佣劳动以外的工作这一事实。从不同的角度（包括文化、社会、法律史以及知识的历史）研究十九世纪后期出现的当代文化经济中的工作，该网络的第二个目标是建立一个回答新劳动史要求的主题，并承诺更普遍地对后工业工作有重要的见解。此外，该网络将有助于保存重要的社会科学档案。它将通过创造机会来展示、讨论和发表他们的作品，支持正在研究相关主题的年轻学者。最后，该网络将促进外地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.