Review article
https://doi.org/10.5613/rzs.42.1.1
From Insecurity to Insecurity: Work and Employment in Cultural and Creative Industries
Jaka Primorac
orcid.org/0000-0001-6969-4598
; Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article analyses key aspects of work and employment in cultural and creative industries. After giving an overview of the specificities of cultural and creative industries that are important for the development of work and employment, the article analyses the influence of information and communication technologies on the latter, and outlines the emergence of participatory models of work and co-operation. The article proceeds to examine the division of cultural workers and overviews the types of employment in cultural and creative industries where atypical employment is highlighted as dominant. Cultural workers encounter inequalities that are related to gender, class, age and ethnicity. Special emphasis is given to the issues of gender inequality in work and employment in European cultural and creative industries. Insecurity of work and employment in that field is analyzed through the concept of precarity that is becoming more dominant in the explications of contemporary changes in such work. The article shows that the concept of precarity cannot contain all the specificities of symbolical nature in cultural products and the dynamism of cultural and creative industries as institutions of symbolic production. In conclusion, it is shown that further detailed research is needed in order to outline the contradictions of work in cultural and creative industries and to identify all the aspects of its complexity.
Keywords
cultural industries; creative industries; creative economy; work; employment; information and communication technologies; cultural worker
Hrčak ID:
89217
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2012.
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