Description
What is ‘cultural work’? How are we to understand the ‘art-commerce relation’? “The Politics of Cultural Work” answers these questions through a wide-ranging study of labour in the cultural industries. It critically evaluates how various sociological traditions – including critical theory, governmentality and liberal-democratic approaches – have sought to theorize the creative cultural worker, in art, music, media and design-based occupations. It evaluates whether the cultural worker should be seen as a creative, autonomous subject – or as a mere victim of the ‘culture industry’
