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Low and unequal rates of pay have been endemic in the world's museums and galleries for decades. For Love or Money dissects the cold, startling statistics about the shocking worldwide inequality of pay in the profession - and details the inspiring initiatives now being taken to resolve the problem once and for all. With a Foreword by the Executive Director of the Getty Leadership Institute, this authoritative book brings a highly critical focus to bear on both the causes and the resulting effects of pay inequality on both staff and institutions. But it also proposes effective strategies to remedy the problem and defines the benefits which fair and equitable pay will achieve. In 528 evidence-based pages, 30 experienced international authors set out the practical actions that staff and organizations can take to help end wage inequality and strengthen our institutions, so allowing committed museum staff to advance in careers that are both financially fair and personally rewarding.

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Ansley Simmons - Founding Member, Museum Workers Speak: The issues of systemic under-compensation and salary inequities are far-reaching and affect museum employees at every level of their career, from internship to leadership. For Love or Money is a timely and vital text for those looking to recharge their own practice with new perspectives, as well as a must-read primer for students considering joining the museum profession. Steering Committee - Fair Museum Jobs: A bold collection of essays that address the topics of museum recruitment, salaries and working conditions, For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries comes at a time when these subjects are becoming less taboo and moving to the forefront of discussions about the sustainability of our sector. We hope that the insights contained within this volume will contribute to this important transformation, open conversations, and drive the museum industry towards a greater sense of equitability. Garrett James Donnelly - Head of Museographic Exhibitions - Louvre Abu Dhabi: Through a diversity of voices this collection of essays provides vital reference and guidance on the complex journeys facing museums and their employees; highlighting existing paradigms and their pitfalls while articulating the benefits of fair and equitable financial and personal rewards that should shape our future. Juline A. Chevalier - Museum Education Division Director, National Art Education Association - Head of Interpretation and Participatory Experiences, Minneapolis Institute of Art: This important collection is exceedingly relevant and useful to museum staff, museum directors, and board members alike. It features a wide range of perspectives that carefully balance background and theory with practical steps for change the field needs. Meta Knol - Director, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands: A vital resource for anyone interested in the economy behind the passion. From interns to board members, everyone in the cultural sector should be aware of public value and working conditions in the context of diversity and equality politics. The economic innovation presented in this important book is essential to the future of museums. Sumantro Ghose - Culture Programming Director - Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi Billions are spent on museums worldwide but alongside the cutting edge architecture and innovative display technology, staff are still treated as if their roles are more hobbies than professions. This book looks at the causes and effects of poor pay in the museum sector. The analysis reads like a call to action. David Green - Director - Florence Nightingale Museum, London: Thought provoking commentary and analysis of some of the biggest challenges facing museums today. The concept of value is a vital one for all museums, for those who work in them, and for those who visit. Challenges around this concept must be addressed if museums are to increase their success and play a bigger and continuing role in society and its development. I hope such thinking facilitates influencers in confronting this time-bomb.

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Dawn E Salerno is Executive Director of the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. She previously served as Deputy Director for Public Engagement and Operations and Acting Director at Mystic Museum of Art in Connecticut. Dawn has been a grant reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services and was elected President of New England Museum Association in 2017. She completed the Getty Leadership Institute program in the same year. Mark S Gold is a partner in the law firm of Smith Green & Gold, LLP, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and International Studies from The American University, a law degree from Georgetown University, and a Masters in Museum Studies from Harvard University. His practice includes business and corporate law, venture capital and traditional financing, and non-profit and museum law. Mark has written extensively and par-ticipated in panels of national and regional associ-ations and academic institutions on deaccessioning, legal issues for museums, non-profit governance, and under-compensation in museums. Kristina L Durocher is the director and curator of the Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. Previously, she was curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA. She has nearly twenty years' experience with civic and academic art museums, creating innovative programs and leading organizational change. Kristina serves on the board of directors of the New England Museum Association and as the New England Region Representative for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries. She has reviewed grants for the National Endowment for the Humanities and was selected to attend the Getty Leadership Institute in 2017.

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