1st Edition
Theorizing Cultural Work Labour, Continuity and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries
1. Introduction: Cultural Work, Time and Trajectory by Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Taylor Part One: Histories 2. Precarious Labour Then and Now: The British Arts and Crafts Movement and Cultural Work Revisited by Susan Luckman 3. Cultural Work and Antisocial Psychology by Sarah Brouillette 4. Hired Hands, Liars, Schmucks: Histories of Screenwriting Work and Workers in Contemporary Screen Production by Bridget Conor 5. Absentee Workers: Representation and Participation in the Cultural Industries by Kate Oakley Part Two: Specificities/Transformations 6. Specificity, Ambivalence, and the Commodity Form of Creative Work by Matt Stahl 7. How Special? Cultural Work, Copyright, Politics by Jason Toynbee 8. Logistics of Cultural Work by Brett Neilson 9. Learning from Luddites: Media Labor, Technology and Life Below the Line by Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller 10. Presence Bleed: Performing Professionalism Online by Melissa Gregg Part Three: Futures 11. Feminist Futures of Cultural Work? Creativity, Gender and Difference in the Digital Media Sector by Sarah B. Proctor-Thomson 12. Creativity, Biography and the Time of Individualization by Lisa Adkins 13. Professional Identity and Media Work by Mark Deuze and Nicky Lewis 14. Theorizing Cultural Work: An Interview with the Editors by Andrew Ross. References.
Biography
Mark Banks is Reader in Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University, UK.
Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at King's College London.
Stephanie Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University, UK.
