Creative Labour
Working in the Creative Industries
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2009
288 pages
978-1-350-30512-0 (ISBN)
Description
Creative Labour provides an insight into the unique employment issues affecting workers in film, television, theatre, arts, music, radio and new media.
In the UK alone, more than 1 million people work in the creative industries, generating billions of pounds in exports each year. These workers have to contend with elastic working hours, employment and promotion uncertainty and vigorous competition for each role. Creative Labour offers a contemporary perspective on a fascinating area of study and a rapidly growing area in developed economies.
Key benefits:
- Grasp the realities of work behind the industry façade
- Evaluate real-life case-studies through a flexible, critical mindset
- Tailor your management decisions to the needs of creative staff
In the UK alone, more than 1 million people work in the creative industries, generating billions of pounds in exports each year. These workers have to contend with elastic working hours, employment and promotion uncertainty and vigorous competition for each role. Creative Labour offers a contemporary perspective on a fascinating area of study and a rapidly growing area in developed economies.
Key benefits:
- Grasp the realities of work behind the industry façade
- Evaluate real-life case-studies through a flexible, critical mindset
- Tailor your management decisions to the needs of creative staff
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-350-30512-0 (9781350305120)
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01/2009
Red Globe Press
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Persons
ALAN MCKINLAY is Professor of Management at Heriott-Watt University, UK.
Content
PART I: THEORY AND OVERVIEW
Introduction: Labour Process Analysis and Creative Industries; C.Smith& A.McKinlay
Creative Labour: Contract, Content and Control; C.Smith& A.McKinlay
From Conception to Consumption: Creativity and the Missing Managerial Link; P.Thompson, M.Jones& C.Warhurst
Working in the Creative Economy Risk, Adaptation, and the Persistence of Exclusionary Networks; S.Christopherson
PART II: CREATIVE LABOUR AND PRACTICE
Film, Theatre and Television
Still a 'Perfect World for Capital'? K.Randle& N.Culkin
I Don't Know Where You Learn Them: Skills in Film and TV; I.Grugulis& D.Stoyanova
Bringing Creativity to Market: Actors as Self-Employed Employees; A.Haunschild& D.Eikhof
Making 'The Bits Between the Adverts: Management, Collective Bargaining and Work in Commercial Television, 1979-2005; A.McKinlay& B.Quinn
PART III: NEW MEDIA
Situating New Media Production: San Francisco, 1995-2000; A.Pratt
Beyond the Hype: Working in the German Internet Industry; N.Mayer-Ahuja& H.Wolf
The Organisation of Creativity: Content, Contracts and Control in Swedish Interactive Media Production; F.Augustsson& Å.Sandberg.
Introduction: Labour Process Analysis and Creative Industries; C.Smith& A.McKinlay
Creative Labour: Contract, Content and Control; C.Smith& A.McKinlay
From Conception to Consumption: Creativity and the Missing Managerial Link; P.Thompson, M.Jones& C.Warhurst
Working in the Creative Economy Risk, Adaptation, and the Persistence of Exclusionary Networks; S.Christopherson
PART II: CREATIVE LABOUR AND PRACTICE
Film, Theatre and Television
Still a 'Perfect World for Capital'? K.Randle& N.Culkin
I Don't Know Where You Learn Them: Skills in Film and TV; I.Grugulis& D.Stoyanova
Bringing Creativity to Market: Actors as Self-Employed Employees; A.Haunschild& D.Eikhof
Making 'The Bits Between the Adverts: Management, Collective Bargaining and Work in Commercial Television, 1979-2005; A.McKinlay& B.Quinn
PART III: NEW MEDIA
Situating New Media Production: San Francisco, 1995-2000; A.Pratt
Beyond the Hype: Working in the German Internet Industry; N.Mayer-Ahuja& H.Wolf
The Organisation of Creativity: Content, Contracts and Control in Swedish Interactive Media Production; F.Augustsson& Å.Sandberg.
