Nice work if you can get it: the mercurial career of creative industries policy

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Nice work if you can get it: the mercurial career of creative industries policy

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Author(s): Andrew Ross

Publication date (Print): Winter 2006-2007

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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Driven by the belief that culture-based enterprise can be promoted as a driver of economic development, governments all over the world have developed policies aimed at boosting their creative industries. These policies ought to present some new, long-term opportunities for cultural workers, but in practice they seem more likely to universalise the traditionally precarious work profile of artists. Focusing on the career of creative industry policy in the UK, the USA and China, this paper calls for an assessment of its model of job creation from the standpoint of quality of work life.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169

Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob

Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 1745641X

ISSN (Electronic): 17456428

Publication date (Print): Winter 2006-2007

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Pages: 13-30

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DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.1.1.0013

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[1] American for the Arts (2004) Creative Industries: Business & Employment in the Arts . Retrieved on June 6, 2006 from http://www.artsusa.org/information_resources/research_information/services/creative_industries/default.asp

[2] Arrighi, G. (1994) The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times , London: Verso

[3] Arrighi, G. (2005) ‘Hegemony Unravelling,’ New Left Review 32, 33: 24–80, 83–116

[4] Cagan, J. & N. deMause (1998) Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit , Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press

[5] Claydon Gescher Associates (2004) Changing China – The Creative Industry Perspective: A Market Perspective , A market research report for UK Trade and Investment. Retrieved on June 6, 2006 from www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk

[6] Creative 100 (2003) The Memphis Manifesto , Memphis: Memphis Tomorrow and Mpact

[7] Cunningham, S., M. Keane, Michael & M. D. Ryan, Mark (2005) ‘Worlds apart? Finance and investment in creative industries in the People's Republic of China and Latin America’. Telematics and Informatics 22(3): 309–331,

[8] DCMS (UK Department of Media, Culture, and Sport) (1998) Creative Industries Mapping Document Economist, The (2000) ‘The Geography of Cool’: April 13.

[9] Florida, R. (2002) The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life New York: Basic Books

[10] Florida, R. (2005) The Flight of the Creative Class , New York: Harper Business

[11] Garnham, N. (2005) ‘From Cultural to Creative Industries: An Analysis of the Implications of the ‘Creative Industries’ Approach to Arts and Media Policy-Making in the UK’, International Journal of Cultural Policy 10, 1: 15–30

[12] Hartley, J. eds. (2004) Creative Industries , Oxford: Blackwell

[13] Hesmondhalgh, D. & A. Pratt eds. (2005) ‘The Cultural Industries and Cultural Policy’, special issue of International Journal of Cultural Policy , 11, 1

[14] Howkins, J. (2002), ‘The Mayor's Commission on the Creative Industries’, in Hartley, ed. Creative Industries : 117–125

[15] Jowell, T. (2004) ‘Government and the Value of Culture’, Department of Media, Culture, Sports, and Media, UK

[16] Keane, M. (2004) ‘Brave New World: Understanding China's Creative Vision,’ International Journal of Cultural Policy , 10, 3: 265–279

[17] Keynes, M. (1945) ‘The Arts Council; Its Policy and Hopes,’ in Wallinger, M. & M. Warnock eds. Art for All?: Their Policies and Our Culture , London: Peer

[18] Kotkin, J. & F. Siegel (2004) ‘Too Much Froth,’ Blueprint 6: 16–8

[19] Kotkin, J. (2005) ‘On Uncool Cities’, Prospect , October,. Retrieved on May 28, 2006 from http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7072

[20] Landry, C. (2000) The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators , London: Earthscan

[21] Larson, G. (1997) American Canvas: An Arts Legacy for Our Communities , Washington D.C.: National Endowment for the Arts

[22] Malanga, S. (2004) ‘The Curse of the Creative Class’, City Journal (Winter): 36–45

[23] Maliszewski, P. (2004) ‘Flexibility and its Discontents’, The Baffler 16: 69–79

[24] Marcuse, P. (2003) ‘Review of “The Rise of the Creative Class”’, Urban Land 62: 40–1

[25] McChesney, R. (2004) The Problem of the Media: US Communications Politics in the 21st Century , New York: Monthly Review Press

[26] Michigan, Department of Labor and Economic Growth (2004) Cool Cities , Lansing: State of Michigan

[27] Miller, T. & G. Yudice (2003) Cultural Policy , London: Sage

[28] Nabeshima, K. & S. Yusuf (2003) ‘Urban Development Needs Creativity: How Creative Industries Can Affect Urban Areas’, Development Outreach, special issue on Unknown Cities, World Bank. Retrieved on June 10, 2006 from http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/nov03/article.asp?id=221

[29] Noll, R. (1997) Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums , Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press

[30] Oakley, K. (2004) ‘Not So Cool Britannia: The Role of the Creative Industries in Economic Development’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 7: 67–77

[31] Peck, J. (2005) ‘Struggling with the Creative Class’, International Journal of Urban and Rural Research 29,4: 740–770

[32] Prowse, M. (2006) ‘Creation Myths?’, The Quarter , 2, Spring

[33] Rosenberg, H. (1975) ‘The Profession of Art: The WPA Art Project’, Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations , New York: MacMillan: 195–205

[34] Rosentraub, M. (1997) Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying for It , New York: Basic Books

[35] Ross, A. (2002) No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs , New York: Basic Books

[36] Ross, A. (2006) Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade – Lessons from Shanghai , New York: Pantheon

[37] Rossiter, N. (2005) ‘Interview with Su Tong: ’Created in China', translated by Du Ping, My Creativity (Nettime) mailing list, May 26

[38] Ryan, Mark (2000), Wallinger, M. & M. Warnock, eds., Art for All?: Their Policies and Our Culture , London: Peer

[39] Saunders, Frances Stonor (2000) The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters , New York: New Press

[40] Smith, C. (1998) Creative Britain , London: Faber & Faber

[41] Smith, C. (1999) ‘Government and the Arts’, Wallinger, M. & M. Warnock, eds., Art for All?: Their Policies and Our Culture , London: Peer

[42] Stallman, R., L. Lessig & J. Gay, Joshua, eds. (2002) Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman , Boston, Ma.: Free Software Foundation

[43] Sun, M. (2006) ‘Creative Industry, New Force in Beijing's Economy’, Beijing This Month , June 14

[44] Terranova, T. (2000) ‘Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy’, Social Text , 18: 33

[45] US Mayors, (2004) Adopted Resolution on the Creative Industries Index, Boston, 72nd Annual Meeting.

[46] Wang, Jing (2004) ‘The Global Reach of a New Discourse: How Far Can “Creative Industries” Travel?’ International Journal of Cultural Studies , 7, 1: 9–19

[47] Weber, S. (2004) The Success of Open Source , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[48] Xinhua (2004) ‘China Badly Needs “Gray-Collars” for Manufacturing’, China Daily , March 21

[49] Yudice, George (2004) The Expediency of Culture (Uses of Culture in the Global Era) , Durham: Duke University Press