The Art of Labour Organizing: Participatory Art and Migrant Domestic Workers’ Self-Organizing in London

Zhe Jiang; Marek Korczynski

doi:10.1177/0018726719890664

The Art of Labour Organizing: Participatory Art and Migrant Domestic Workers’ Self-Organizing in London

Zhe Jiang, Marek Korczynski

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There has been an upsurge of interest regarding how actors engage with art within organizational processes. However, scholars have tended not to study the role of art within contemporary collective labor organizing. This paper focuses on how participatory art may support flat, participative labour organizing, particularly among marginalized, relatively powerless workers. We present an ethnographic account of how art practices are deeply embedded within the flat organizing processes of Justice For Domestic Workers, a self-organizing group of migrant domestic workers in London. We reflect on this case to theorise the art of flat organizing, an ideal type of a set of participatory art practices that are compatible with and supportive of flat labour organizing.

Original language	English
Article number	0018726719890664
Number of pages	27
Journal	Human Relations
Volume	0
Early online date	9 Dec 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726719890664
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 9 Dec 2019

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