“…A clearer understanding of the class, gender and global dynamics of creativity and knowledge possession and deployment is also sorely needed. We know, for instance, that the creative industries, particularly publishing, film and television, are dominated by workers with professional middle class backgrounds and excellent social capital, as well as, increasingly, the economic resources to support them through unpaid internships (Randle et al ., ; O'Brien et al ., ). Nevertheless, the relationship between employers and even the most privileged of knowledge workers is characterised by a profound imbalance of power and one which is arguably becoming increasingly asymmetrical as work is progressively dominated by precarious forms of employment, including free labour (Gill, ; Ross, ; Terranova, ).…”