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dc.contributor.authorHesmondhalgh, David
dc.contributor.authorBaker, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:28:42Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:28:42Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2010-08-18T07:00:11Z
dc.identifier.issn0304-422X
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.poetic.2009.10.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/33580
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the experiences and emotional responses of interviewees to their working conditions in three cultural industries (the television industry, the recording industry and the magazine industry). Via semi-structured interviews with a range of workers, it explores working conditions and experiences in the following areas: pay, working hours and unions; insecurity and uncertainty; socialising, networking and isolation. Our research suggests that experiences are at best highly ambivalent, across all three of the industries we studied. We found evidence of feelings of victimisation and anxiety. Building on previous research, especially that carried out on IT workers, we also discerned complicated responses on the part of workers to the freedom and autonomy characteristic of much cultural work. Pleasure and obligation become blurred in a challenging way. Expectations of sociability and networking in these industries were also the object of some ambivalence, and some workers reported feelings of isolation. These findings suggest that creative industries policy has paid insufficient attention to the experiences of creative workers.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom4
dc.relation.ispartofpageto20
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPoetics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume38
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4410
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode441099
dc.title‘A very complicated version of freedom’: Conditions and experiences of creative labour in three cultural industries
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBaker, Sarah L.


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