This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, popular music, the platform economy, and film.
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, popular music, the platform economy, and film.
The creative economy has been lauded by national and regional governments for its job-creating potential, even though the jobs created might be insecure or poorly paid. This edited collection emerges from a research network examining this contradiction. It gathers empirical material and case studies across European creative sectors to explore how creative work is perceived by both workers and policymakers, and how these understandings shape practical worker support. The volume brings together renowned European experts from cultural sociology, cultural studies, and creative labour research. Combining cross-national writing teams with focused national case studies, it provides comprehensive insights into diverse creative economies across Europe. Addressing the tension between the creative economy's promise and workers lived experiences, it examines how cultural and economic policies intersect with social inequalities, determining who can access and thrive in creative careers. The research reveals both the challenges facing creative workers and emerging strategies for creating more equitable opportunities. Through analysis of macro-level policy frameworks alongside micro-level worker experiences, the book offers nuanced perspectives and examines the structural factors that shape the conditions of creative work.
With insights from renowned European experts, Creative and Cultural Work in Europe will be of value to those studying and researching cultural policy, labour studies and the creative industries more broadly.
Arvustused
This book takes a multidisciplinary social science view on creative and cultural work and workers, highlighting the many policy domains that boundary-spanning cultural and creative professionals encounter, lays bare hard data on working conditions, and calls for progressive policies beyond praise of creativity as the future of Europe.
Katja Lindqvist, Department of Service Studies, Lund University
"Comparative perspectives on the cultural and creative sectors are a crucial missing piece of the research field. This important new collection addresses that absence, giving significant insight into the challenges and the possibilities of cross-national cultural research. Focused on Europe, but with globally relevant insights, the book shows how the problems of creative work are not inevitable, and how another Europe is possible through art, culture and creative labour."
Dave O'Brien, Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester
1. Introduction: Approaching Creative and Cultural Work in Europe Part
I: The Precarious Present of Creative and Cultural Work
2. Measuring Matters:
Mapping Cultural and Creative Work in Europe
3. Creativity and the Work of
Art: Visual Artists Perspectives
4. On the Heterogeneity of Creative Work:
Exploring Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cultural Workers in the Balkans
5. Closing the Gap? Gender Differences in Norwegian Artists Work and Income
6. Patterns in Artists Careers: Adapting to Uncertainty, Opportunity, and
Socio- Economic Constraints
7. "Oh My God, What Have I Done All Day?":
Challenges of Measuring the Value of Creative Work Part II: Challenges for
Policy: Changing the Conditions of Creative and Cultural Work
8. Barcelona
Creation Factories: Improving the Support for Creative Work through an
Innovative Cultural Policy
9. Welfare Policy as Cultural Policy in the UK:
From Enterprise Allowance to Universal Credit
10. Building Creative Careers
through Working Relations: The Case of the Norwegian Artist Assistant Scheme
11. From Precarity to Security? How Can Cultural Policies Tackle the
Challenging Working Conditions of Creative Self- Employees in Europe?
12. The
Trajectory of Film Work as Precarious Project Work: From Organization of
Associated Labour, through Semi- Permanent Workgroups, to Gig Jobs
13. The
Creative Middle Class: Between Neoliberalism and Commonism Part III:
Contested Futures of Creative and Cultural Work
14. How to Move Things with
Unions? Labour Organizing of Art Workers in the Post- Yugoslav Context
15.
Creative Labour as Platform Work: Structural Inequalities and Digital
Peripheries
16. Universal Basic Income and the Future of (Creative) Work
17.
Ecologically Sustainable Creative Work? Rethinking Cultural Policies and
Practices of Creative Work in the Wake of Green Transition
18. Navigating
Symbolic Boundaries: Migrants Artistic Practices and the Struggle for
Recognition
19. Conclusion: Supporting Creative and Cultural Work in Europe
Bård Kleppe works as a research professor at the Telemark Research Institute. He has conducted several research projects on cultural policy, artists' working conditions, and the creative sector.
Jaka Primorac works as a scientific advisor at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, with research interests in the field of cultural and creative industries, cultural labour, cultural policy and digital culture.
Miikka Pyykkönen is Professor of Cultural Policy in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. He specializes in cultural policy, creative economy, and ethnopolitics, but his research interests also cover entrepreneurship, cultural participation of youth, government and governance, and social theory.
David Wright is an associate professor in the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, where he teaches and researches cultural policy and cultural work.
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