Escaping the precarity trap: a call for creative labour policy

Murray, Catherine; Gollmitzer, Mirjam

doi:10.1080/10286632.2011.591490

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“…Creative workers and artists hardly benefited from the ‘stable employment’ post‐war counter‐revolution, and since its demise are increasingly affected by rapidly deteriorating conditions (Bain and McLean ; Grant and Buckwold ; De Peuter ). In fact, given the prominence of the creative industries in current industrial policy or urban development debates, policy responses to the widespread precarity of the industry have been scarce, even in developed countries with long social protection traditions (Kong ; Murray and Gollmitzer ).…”

Section: The Rise Of Co‐working Spaces and Work Collectivesmentioning

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Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Avdikos

Kalogeresis

2016

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Third places, such as business incubators, co‐working spaces and work collectives, represent a new ecosystem of collaborative working practices in the creative economy that alters significantly the spatial distribution of work and the notion of ‘workplace’. Collaborative workplaces emerged after the gradual collapse of the stable employment paradigm that was one of the main features of the Keynesian welfare state and as a response to precarious working conditions that were augmented during the recent economic crisis and the subsequent recession. The paper contributes to the critical understanding of these new geographies of workplace and working conditions that third places manifest. Using data from a large survey about the economics and the working conditions of Greek designers and from four interviews with freelancers in work collectives and facilitators of co‐working spaces, the paper sheds light on the socio‐economic profile and the working conditions of Greek freelance designers that use co‐working spaces and work collectives as means of reducing precarious working conditions and personal–professional risks. The results show that designers in third places, in contrast to freelancers who use formal workplaces or work from home, work long hours with poor pay and a large proportion have no safety net with regard to social security. Third places can be enclaves of the shadow economy and of very specific precarious working conditions. On the other hand, third places help freelance designers become more embedded to business networks, both local and foreign, rather than working in isolation. Networking effects between freelancers and self‐employed who choose to work in third places usually result in greater opportunities for outsourcing and subcontracting and in more exports.

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Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

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“…As well, the federal government, under the austerity measures of the Conservative majority, has curtailed the collection of socioeconomic data, with major funding cuts incurred by the primary agency Statistics Canada. Murray and Gollmitzer (2012) call for a new policy paradigm to address precarious labour, especially for women and racial minorities, clustered in less secure and lower-income employment relationships, including in the creative sector. In Canada, internships are regulated provincially.…”

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Hungry for the Job: Gender, Unpaid Internships, and the Creative Industries

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Jacobson²

2015

The Sociological Review

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This paper examines the experiences of young Canadian women working in Toronto and New York who have undertaken unpaid internships in the creative sector. Interviews focused on their internship experiences, ability to secure paid employment, knowledge of the legal status of unpaid internships, and familiarity with emergent activism against unpaid internships. Findings reinforce the class‐based privilege of unpaid internships in the creative sector. Despite the economic precarity of unpaid internships, the young women articulated strong desires to find meaningful, secure, and paid employment.

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“…Clearly, casualized labor suits some people in particular places at certain moments in their lives; but to make it a requirement, a norm, means that there need to be accompanying programs to ameliorate the inequalities and poverty that this can cause through the consolidation of primary and secondary labor markets, which segregate societies by power and money. The answer lies in environmental justice and welfare tailored to patterns of employment (Murray & Gollmitzer, 2011). This also necessitates global solidarity with workers at the sharpest end of the NICL-those who make and recycle electronic devices under oppressive, dangerous circumstances, and struggle for political rights (Chan, Pun & Selden, 2013).…”

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The New International Division of Cultural Labor Revisited

Miller

2016

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La economía política radical dió lugar al concepto de la Nueva División Internacional del Trabajo Cultural (NICL). Este parte de comprender las situaciones de desigualdad que se producen a diario tanto en el trabajo como en la vida doméstica. Aunque los trabajadores generan valor, rara vez se benefician proporcionalmente de este debido al poder del capital. Mientras que la economía neoclásica o burguesa asume que la oferta y demanda determinan el precio de los productos básicos, la economía política examina el papel del Estado y el capital en el control de mano de obra y la ideologización de consumidores y ciudadanos. En otras palabras, la economía ortodoxa se concentra en los mercados, considerándolos como las joyas de la conducta humana; el enfoque heterodoxo desafía este enfoque sobre el consumo, haciendo hincapié en la producción como una fuente de valor y un espacio de control. En este trabajo se analiza como el NICL se ha convertido en un modelo para la explotación en todos los territorios, las industrias y ocupaciones, por lo que ejercer un pensamiento crítico sigue siendo vital. Analíticamente, tenemos que centrarnos en la división del trabajo como una herramienta teórica, empírica, y de organización si queremos entender el trabajo diario de una manera que pueda enriquecerlo y liberarlo de acuerdo con las experiencias y las necesidades tanto de los trabajadores como ecológicas.

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Escaping the precarity trap: a call for creative labour policy

Cited by 54 publications

References 24 publications

Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Hungry for the Job: Gender, Unpaid Internships, and the Creative Industries

The New International Division of Cultural Labor Revisited

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