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0367771195 epub This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of labour time to life time. These changes have narrowed career pathways for creative workers, resulting in exploitative working conditions for both professionals and amateurs. The contemporary cultural industries accentuate entrepreneurialism, informed by social network markets and a capacity to engage technologised consumer culture. This book suggests that a radically different view is needed to understand how creative workers justify their continued participation in the cultural industries. It pays particular attention to the identities of marginalised cultural workers (underpaid or under-rewarded) and argues that cultural work cannot be understood as a route into entrapment by self-exploitation (sacrificial labour) nor as an abstract form of creative autonomy. Creative workers must engage the artist critique to re-claim the social values of making culture as public labour. Read more