Author: National Endowment for the Arts, Research Division

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

Summary:

Changes in the employment and unemployment of artists from 1971 to 1980 is the topic of this report. Like people in other occupations, artists depend on the overall health of the national economy in maintaining gainful employment. In times of recession, unemployment in many types of artist occupations increases. The 1973-75 recession caused a downturn in artist employment, but when the decade of the 1970s ended employment levels were relatively high in most artist occupations.

Abstract:

Changes in the employment and unemployment of artists from 1971 to 1980 is the topic of this report. Like people in other occupations, artists depend on the overall health of the national economy in maintaining gainful employment. In times of recession, unemployment in many types of artist occupations increases. The 1973-75 recession caused a downturn in artist employment, but when the decade of the 1970s ended employment levels were relatively high in most artist occupations. *(p. 6)

CONTENTS
Preface.
List of tables.
List of figures.
Introduction.
1971-80 highlights.
Growth of the artist labor force.
Male-female composition.
Unemployment.

Occupational overviews:
     Actors.
     Architects.
     Authors.
     Dancers.
     Designers.
     Musicians and composers.
     Painters and sculptors.
     Photographers.
     Radio-TV announcers.
     Teachers of art, drama and music in higher education.

Appendix:
     A. Detailed tables.
     B. Reliability of current population survey (CPS).
         Statistics.
         Current population survey (CPS) as a source of artist occupation data.

Reports in the National Endowment for the Arts Research Division Series.

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