Culture Is Bad for You - Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries

The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a 'creative class' in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture.

List of contents

1 Introduction
2 Is culture good for you?
3 Who works in culture?
4 Who consumes culture?
5 When does inequality begin in cultural workers' lives?
6 Is it still good work if you're not getting paid?
7 Was there a golden age?
8 How is inequality experienced?
9 Why don't women run culture?
10 What about the men?
11 Conclusion
Index

About the author

Orian Brook is an AHRC Creative and Digital Economy Innovation Leadership Fellow at the University of Edinburgh

Dave O'Brien is a Chancellor's Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh

Mark Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Sheffield

Summary

The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a ‘creative class’ in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Orian Brook, Orian O''brien Brook, Dave O'Brien, Mark Taylor
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781526144164
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4416-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Medien-, Unterhaltungs-, Informations- und Kommunikationsindustrie, Soziologie: Arbeit und Beruf, Soziale Schichten