Care-ful Work: An Ethics of Care Approach to Contingent Labour in the Creative Industries
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04316-3
Abstract: Studies of creative industries typically contend that creative work is profoundly precarious, taking place on a freelance basis in highly competitive, individualized and contingent labour markets. Such studies depict creative workers as correspondingly self-enterprising, self-reliant,… read more here.
Keywords: work; contingent labour; creative workers; care approach ... See more keywords
Exploring creative class mobility: Hong Kong creative workers in Shanghai and Beijing
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DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2017.1365311
Abstract: Abstract In 2008 a controversial essay was published in Hong Kong drawing attention to the increasing number of local creative workers who have allegedly responded to the limitations the city had to wrestle with and… read more here.
Keywords: creative class; hong kong; class mobility; creative workers ... See more keywords
Tormented Selves: The social imaginary of the tortured artist and the identity work of creative workers
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DOI: 10.1177/01708406221089594
Abstract: This article examines identity work in the creative industries as a type of identity formation that has been underexplored in the literature on identity work to date. Based on interviews with performing artists in music… read more here.
Keywords: social imaginary; creative workers; identity work; identity ... See more keywords
Work Faster, Harder, Cheaper? Global, Local and Sectoral Co-Configurations of Job Insecurities Among Hong Kong Creative Workers
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DOI: 10.1177/08969205221087345
Abstract: This research challenges the growing theoretical Global North–South divide and refines an ‘ex-centric’ theorisation of creative labour in the context of the increasingly monopolising but competitive capitalism in Asia. While it argues that job insecurity… read more here.
Keywords: hong kong; local sectoral; kong creative; job ... See more keywords
The university as intermediary for the creative economy: Pedagogues, policy-makers and creative workers in the curriculum
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DOI: 10.1177/1474022218824562
Abstract: This article examines the nature and role of courses designed to train creative workers, policy-makers and related actors, in the skills necessary for cultural management, enterprise or intermediation and their relationship in apprehending the sector.… read more here.
Keywords: policy; creative workers; intermediary creative; university ... See more keywords
Creative workers: returns to education and experience. The evidence from Australia
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DOI: 10.25167/ees.2018.46.33
Abstract: This paper uses unit record data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey conducted on 7340 individuals. The mapping methodology of Australian creative economy was implemented to extract 455 workers belonging… read more here.
Keywords: workers returns; creative workers; returns education; education experience ... See more keywords