The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines

Name: The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines
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ISBN: 9781625340245

ISBN-10: 1625340249

ISBN-13: 9781625340245

Edition: 2013

Authors: Amy M. Tyson

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Anyone who has encountered costumed workers at a living history museum may well have wondered what their jobs are like, churning butter or firing muskets while dressed in period clothing. In The Wages of History, Amy Tyson enters the world of the public history interpreters at Minnesota's Historic Fort Snelling to investigate how they understand their roles and experience their daily work. Drawing on archival research, personal interviews, and participant observation, she reframes the current discourse on history museums by analyzing interpreters as laborers within the larger service and knowledge economies. Although many who are drawn to such work initially see it as a privilege -- an…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Customer Service Superstars



Public History's Emotional Proletariat (1960-1996)



Performing a Public Service: From Historic Site to Work Site (1960-1985)



"Our Seat at the Table": Interpreter Agency and Consent (1985-1996)



Historic Fort Snelling's Front Line (1996-2006)



The Wages of Living History: Rewards and Costs of Emotional Investment



Pursuing Authenticity: Creative Autonomy and Workplace Games



Interpreting Painful Histories: Emotional Comfort and Connecting


Epilogue


Notes


Index