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CULTURAL WORK AND PRECARITY

The word ‘precariousness’ was used to describe the working conditions of the working classes as early as the beginning of the industrial revolution. However, the use of the term on a broader scale has become much more prevalent since the late 20th century, and in particular after the 2008 financial crisis. This is also when the notion became common in the field of arts and culture.

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Praznik, Kunst & Abbing - Which Side are You On?

Praznik, K., Kunst, B. and Abbing, H. (2022) Which side are you on? Ideas for Reaching Fair Working Conditions in the Arts. IETM, Brussels, December 2022.

Gill & Pratt - In the Social Factory?

Gill, R. & Pratt, R. (2008). In the Social Factory? Immaterial Labour, Precariousness and Cultural Work. Theory, Culture and Society, 25(7-8): 1-30.

Ross - The New Geography of Work

Ross, A (2008). The New Geography of Work: Power to the Precarious?. Theory, Culture and Society, 25(7-8): 31-49.

Standing - The Precariat

Standing, G. (2011). The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-84966-351-9

EENCA - The Status and Working Conditions of Artists and Cultural and Creative Professionals

EENCA (2018) The Status and Working Conditions of Artists and Cultural and Creative Professionals. European Expert Network on Culture and Audiovisual (EENCA).

Banks, Gill & Taylor - Theorizing cultural work

Banks, M., Gill, R., & Taylor, S. (2013). Theorizing cultural work: labour, continuity and change in the cultural and creative industries. Routledge. ISBN 9781138087088

Banks - Creative justice

Banks, M. (2017) Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-78660-128-5; 978-1-78660-129-2; eISBN 978-1-78660-130-8

Pascal Gielen: Re-thinking Cultural Work. Insights and Models

Pascal Gielen: Re-thinking Cultural Work. Insights and Models

Eleanor Belfiore, Graham Jeffery, Claire Webster-Saaremets - Socially Engaged Arts & Cultural Labour

Eleanor Belfiore, Graham Jeffery, Claire Webster-Saaremets - Socially Engaged Arts & Cultural Labour

What Culture Can Mean for Well-Being

Holla, S. & C. Arroyo (2023, September). What Culture Can Mean for Well-Being

Cvetičanin, Petrić & Koludrović - Towards a social turn in cultural policy: A policymaker’s guidebook

Cvetičanin, P.,  M. Petrić & I. Tomić Koludrović (2023). Towards a social turn in cultural policy: A policymaker’s guidebook. INVENT publication.

INVENT Policy Brief II

Janssen, S., & S. Holla. (2023). INVENT Policy Brief II – Culture’s contribution to health and wellbeing. 22 pages.

INVENT Policy Brief I

Janssen, S., Katz-Gerro, T., Rössel, J., Cvetičanin, P.  & M. Verboord (2021). INVENT Policy Brief I. 16 pages.

» NEW! » Precarious workers in Italy’s cultural sector

Precarious workers in Italy’s cultural sector . 2023

» NEW! » Precarious Workers Brigade at ARE ARTISTS RICH?

Precarious Workers Brigade at ARE ARTISTS RICH?  2012

» NEW! » CHC talks: independent in precarity

CHC talks: independent in precarity. 2021

» NEW! » Existing In-Between: Spatial Precarity in Literature and Art

Existing In-Between: Spatial Precarity in Literature and Art. 2021

» NEW! » Critical Approaches to Precarity: Work, Subjectivities and Movements

Critical Approaches to Precarity: Work, Subjectivities and Movements. 2021

» NEW! » The ‘Mastery’ of the Swipe: Smartphones and Precarity in a Culture of Narcissism

The ‘Mastery’ of the Swipe: Smartphones and Precarity in a Culture of Narcissism. 2017

» NEW! » Alacovska & Gill - De-westernizing creative labour studies

Alacovska, A., & Gill, R. (2019). De-westernizing creative labour studies: The informality of creative work from an ex-centric perspective. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 22(2), 195-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877918821231

» NEW! » Banks - The politics of cultural work

Banks, M. (2007). The politics of cultural work. Springer.

» NEW! » Cohen - Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle

Cohen, N. S. (2015). "Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation". In Marx and the Political Economy of the Media. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004291416_004

» NEW! » Comunian & England - Creative and cultural work without filters

Roberta Comunian & Lauren England (2020) Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy, Cultural Trends, 29:2, 112-128, DOI: 10.1080/09548963.2020.1770577

» NEW! » de Peuter - Creative Economy and Labor Precarity

De Peuter, G. (2011). Creative economy and labor precarity: A contested convergence. Journal of communication inquiry, 35(4), 417-425.

» NEW! » de Peuter - Beyond the Model Worker

De Peuter, G. (2014). Beyond the model worker: Surveying a creative precariat. Culture Unbound, 6(1), 263-284. DOI:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146263

» NEW! » de Peuter - Confronting Precarity in the Warhol Economy

Greig de Peuter (2014) Confronting Precarity in the Warhol Economy, Journal of Cultural Economy, 7:1, 31-47, DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.856337

» NEW! » Murray & Gollmitzer- Escaping the precarity trap

Murray, C., & Gollmitzer, M. (2012). Escaping the precarity trap: a call for creative labour policy. International journal of cultural policy, 18(4), 419-438. DOI:10.1080/10286632.2011.591490