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Cultural work has been a lively area of study for some years now, but even the best contributions have tended to lack historical engagement. This excellent collection, expertly edited by three leading figures, fills that gap with aplomb. By doing so, it hugely advances debate and understanding.

Professor David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds

Theorizing Cultural Work

In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines. The debate in this turn to cultural work has largely been based around evaluating its advantages and disadvantages: its freedoms and its constraints, its informal but precarious nature, the inequalities within its global workforce, and the blurring of worklife boundaries leading to self-exploitation.

While academic critics have persuasively challenged more optimistic accounts of converged worlds of creative production, the critical debate on cultural work has itself leant heavily towards suggesting a profoundly new confluence of forces and effects. Theorizing Cultural Work instead views cultural work through a specifically historicized and temporal lens, to ask: what novelty can we actually attach to current conditions, and precisely what relation does cultural work have to social precedent? The contributors to this volume also explore current transformations and future(s) of work within the cultural and creative industries as they move into an uncertain future.

This book challenges more affirmative and proselytizing industry and academic perspectives, and the pervasive cult of novelty that surrounds them, to locate cultural work as an historically and geographically situated process. It will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, human geography, urban studies and industrial relations, as well as management and business studies, cultural and economic policy and development, government and planning.

Mark Banks is Reader in Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University, UK.

Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at Kings College London.

Stephanie Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University, UK.

Culture, Economy and the Social

A new series from CRESC the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change

Editors

Professor Tony Bennett, Social and Cultural Theory, University of Western Sydney; Professor Penny Harvey, Anthropology, Manchester University; Professor Kevin Hetherington, Geography, Open University

Editorial Advisory Board

Andrew Barry, University of Oxford; Michel Callon, Ecole des Mines de Paris; Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago; Mike Crang, University of Durham; Tim Dant, Lancaster University; Jean-Louis Fabiani, Ecoles de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Antoine Hennion, Paris Institute of Technology; Eric Hirsch, Brunel University; John Law, The Open University; Randy Martin, New York University; Timothy Mitchell, New York University; Rolland Munro, Keele University; Andrew Pickering, University of Exeter; Mary Poovey, New York University; Hugh Willmott, University of Cardiff; Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College City University New York/Graduate School, City University of New York

The Culture, Economy and the Social series is committed to innovative contemporary, comparative and historical work on the relations between social, cultural and economic change. It publishes empirically based research that is theoretically informed, that critically examines the ways in which social, cultural and economic change is framed and made visible, and that is attentive to perspectives that tend to be ignored or sidelined by grand theorizing or epochal accounts of social change. The series addresses the diverse manifestations of contemporary capitalism, and considers the various ways in which the social, the cultural and the economic are apprehended as tangible sites of value and practice. It is explicitly comparative, publishing books that work across disciplinary perspectives, cross-culturally, or across different historical periods.

The series is actively engaged in the analysis of the different theoretical traditions that have contributed to the development of the cultural turn with a view to clarifying where these approaches converge and where they diverge on a particular issue. It is equally concerned to explore the new critical agendas emerging from current critiques of the cultural turn: those associated with the descriptive turn, for example. Our commitment to interdisciplinarity thus aims at enriching theoretical and methodological discussion, building awareness of the common ground that has emerged in the past decade, and thinking through what is at stake in those approaches that resist integration to a common analytical model.

Series titles include:

The Media and Social Theory (2008)

Edited by David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee

Culture, Class, Distinction (2009)

Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright

Material Powers (2010)

Edited by Tony Bennett and Patrick Joyce

The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and assessments (2010)

Edited by Matei Candea

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieus Legacy (2010)

Edited by Elizabeth Silva and Alan Ward

Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human (2010)

Richie Nimmo

Creative Labour: Media work in three cultural industries (2010)

Edited by David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Baker

Migrating Music (2011)

Edited by Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck

Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States, media and markets 19502010 (2011)

Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young and Richard Holt

Inventive Methods: The happening of the social (2012)

Edited by Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford

Understanding Sport: A socio-cultural analysis (2012)

John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward

Shanghai Expo: An international forum on the future of cities (2012)

Edited by Tim Winter

Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (19322012)

Edited by Marie Gillespie and Alban Webb

Making Culture, Changing Society

Tony Bennett

Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences

Edited by Andrew Barry and Georgina Born

Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion

Edited by Penny Harvey, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Gillian Evans, Hannah Knox, Christine McLean, Elizabeth B. Silva, Nicholas Thoburn and Kath Woodward

Accumulation: The material politics of plastic

Edited by Gay Hawkins, Jennifer Gabrys and Mike Michael

Theorizing Cultural Work: Labour, continuity and change in the cultural and creative industries

Edited by Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Taylor

Rio de Janeiro: Urban life through the eyes of the city (forthcoming)

Beatriz Jaguaribe

Devising Consumption: Cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending (forthcoming)

Liz Mcfall

Unbecoming Things: Mutable objects and the politics of waste (forthcoming)

Nicky Gregson and Mike Crang

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