This report summarises the findings of a survey of workers and working issues in the games sector in Ireland. The survey was designed and administered by Game Workers Unite Ireland in 2019. GWUI is an affiliated branch of the Financial Services Union in Ireland and part of an international organisation with branches in a number of countries. The findings of this survey will inform the GWU charter in Ireland.
Internships are a precarious labour practice often driven by a combination of labour market competition, desirable work, employer advantages and fictional expectations. This article is based on an empirical study of intern labour in the Cultural and Creative Industries in Ireland. The data consists of a survey of workers and interns, and interviews with interns past and present. Through approaching internships as a form of precarisation, and intern labour through the lens of ‘fictional expectations’, this article provides an analysis of intern labour as a form of regenerative precarisation through the self-reinforcing tendencies of action, subjectivity, discursive constructs and social structures. The labour market practice of interning creates discursive, normative and structural patterns of precarisation. These patterns in turn shape subjective and intersubjective expectations of work and life, impacting on the actions that individuals make and thus acting as drivers of further precarisation.
This report summarises the findings of a game worker pay transparency survey in the games sector in Ireland. The survey was designed and administered by Game Workers Unite Ireland in affiliation with the Financial Services Union. The findings of this survey provide some initial insight into pay in the games sector based on occupational role, company size, work experience and gender among other indicators. The report is intended to be used as a resource for game workers and it accompanies the launch of a private GWUI pay transparency database which members can collectively build and use as a resource in the mapping of pay related work conditions across the sector.
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