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Drawing from American history, fashion design, visual culture, museum studies, and women's 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, USA.
Vincent G. Quan is Associate Professor in the Fashion Business Management Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, USA.
