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...museum has a distinctive role to play in the education of the art historian," said Nancy Troy, associate professor and chair of the art history department at North-western University...
...remarks, Troy called upon university museums to diversify their collections by seeking more non-traditional works of art such as clothing and wallpaper to complement traditional paintings and scupltures...
...Troy also described the negative ramifications of ignoring modern technology in the analysis of artwork academic analysis of artwork, illustrating her remarks with slides of a painting that had been incorrectly interpreted until X-ray photographs were examined...
...Troy compares this to the phenomenon apparent when the minimum wage is increased. When that occurs, businesses tend to hold back in hiring less skilled workers and attempt to make do with those they have. This substitution translates into an apparent increase in productivity, but leaves less skilled non-union workers out in the cold. Thus, unions also can have the effect of freezing out those on the bottom rung of an industry's job ladder...
...Troy cites the example of the United Auto Workers, which came close to splitting into two unions in the late 1950s because of this levelling effect. Ultimately, the more skilled workers gained the right to veto power over any collective bargaining pact--a necessary, but not necessarily democratic, move if meritocracy was to remain in the auto industry...