Alan Mckinlay - Creative Labour

Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment

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Irena Grugulis, Bradford University School of Management, UK

Caroline Lloyd, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

Chris Smith, Royal Holloway University of London School of Management, UK

Chris Warhurst, University of Strathclyde Business School, UK

Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment combines the best empirical research with leading edge, critical debate on key issues and developments in the field of work and employment. Extremely well-regarded and popular, the series is linked to the highly successful International Labour Process Conference.

Formerly edited by David Knights, Hugh Willmott, Chris Smith, Paul Thompson, each volume in the series includes contributions from a range of disciplines, including the sociology of work and employment, business and management studies, human resource management, industrial relations and organisational analysis.

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Maeve Houlihan and Sharon Bolton
WORK MATTERS

Alan McKinlay and Chris Smith
CREATIVE LABOUR

Chris Warhurst, Doris Ruth Eikhof and Axel Haunschild
WORK LESS, LIVE MORE?

Bill Harley, Jeff Hyman and Paul Thompson
PARTICIPATION AND DEMOCRACY AT WORK

Chris Warhurst, Ewart Keep and Irena Grugulis
THE SKILLS THAT MATTER

Andrew Sturdy, Irena Grugulis and Hugh Willmott
CUSTOMER SERVICE

Craig Prichard, Richard Hull, Mike Chumer and Hugh Willmott
MANAGING KNOWLEDGE

Alan Felstead and Nick Jewson
GLOBAL TRENDS IN FLEXIBLE LABOUR

Paul Thompson and Chris Warhurst
WORKPLACES OF THE FUTURE

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Creative Labour

Working in the Creative Industries

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A. McKinlay & C. Smith 2009

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List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Helen Blair completed her doctoral research into the labour markets of film crews at the University of Hertfordshire in 2001. She has since worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation as an employment adviser.

Susan Christopherson is the J. Thomas Clark Professor in City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. She has published widely on firms, production and labour markets in manufacturing, Hollywood and the new media. Her most recent book is Re-making Regional Economies: Labor, Power and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy (2007).

Nigel Culkin is Head of Enterprise & Entrepreneurial Development at the University of Hertfordshire and Associate Dean of the Business School. He is Chair of the Universitys Film Industry Research Group (FiRG) and is a regular contributor to the media on film industry matters. Nigel was recently awarded a 2.5 m grant from the UK government to establish a Film & Digital Media Exchange (FDMX) for the film, TV and digital media industries.

Doris Ruth Eikhof is Lecturer in Organization Studies at the Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, and Research Associate at the Wirtschaftsuniversitt Wien, Austria. Her research interests include creative industries, work-life boundaries, social theories in organisation studies and womens work. She has published in international and German academic journals and books, including Journal of Organizational Behavior and Creativity and Innovation Management, and is co-editor of Work Less, Live More? Critical Analysis of the Work-Life Boundary (2008).

Irena Grugulis is the Professor of Employment Studies at Bradford University School of Management and an AIM Services Fellow. Her research focuses on skills including soft skills, organisational culture, national skill formation systems, fragmenting organisations, retail work and the creative industries. Her latest book is Skills, Training and Human Resource Development published by Palgrave and her research has been funded by the ESRC, EPSRC and the ERDF. She is an associate member of SKOPE, an ESRC-funded research centre split between Oxford and Cardiff and sits on the expert panel of the UKs Commission for Employment and Skills.

Axel Haunschild is Professor of Work, Employment and Organisation at the University of Trier, Germany, and Visiting Professor at the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests focus on changing forms of work and organisation, employment systems in the creative industries, the institutional embeddedness of work and employment, and the boundaries between work and life. He has published in journals such as Human Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. He recently co-edited Work Less, Live More? Critical Analyses of the Work-Life Relationship