{"id":708,"date":"2013-03-18T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/03\/can-unions-save-the-creative-class.html"},"modified":"2013-03-18T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:47:00","slug":"can-unions-save-the-creative-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/03\/can-unions-save-the-creative-class.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Unions Save the Creative Class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALON is running a series on labor unions in the 21st century. My contribution is a piece asking if struggling artists, musicians, authors, scribes, etc. can make use of a union or collective to negotiate these strange times.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gexbVHBh8AE\/UUd-T8WwziI\/AAAAAAAACOQ\/dc35zxnlQ-k\/s1600\/Glaser+guild_.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gexbVHBh8AE\/UUd-T8WwziI\/AAAAAAAACOQ\/dc35zxnlQ-k\/s1600\/Glaser+guild_.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I spoke to a number of folks &#8212; a laid-off journalist, a music historian, screenwriter who helped lead the Hollywood writers strike, cultural observer Thomas Frank &#8212; for this piece. And took the whole thing back to about the 12th century.\u00a0Complicated issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/03\/18\/can_unions_save_the_creative_class\/\">Here<\/a> it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALON is running a series on labor unions in the 21st century. My contribution is a piece asking if struggling artists, musicians, authors, scribes, etc. can make use of a union or collective to negotiate these strange times. I spoke to a number of folks &#8212; a laid-off journalist, a music historian, screenwriter who helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,54,39,28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-classical-music","8":"category-creative-class","9":"category-newspapers","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}