Creative Work in the Cultural Industries
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Institute of Communication Studies
Abstract
The experiences and working conditions of creative personnel (the actors, musicians, directors, writers, etc. primarily responsible for making cultural products) and those who work with them have been surprisingly neglected in discussions of the media. The project aimed to fill this gap by providing a better understanding of the conditions under which such personnel work in the television, recording and magazine publishing industries, across various genres.
The three industries were chosen because, according to one influential account of the cultural industries, each has distinctive conditions and dynamics, typical of a wider sub-set of cultural industries. So the project also aimed to enhance understanding of how different cultural industries operate.
The three industries were chosen because, according to one influential account of the cultural industries, each has distinctive conditions and dynamics, typical of a wider sub-set of cultural industries. So the project also aimed to enhance understanding of how different cultural industries operate.
Organisations
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ORCID iD |
David Hesmondhalgh (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Hesmondhalgh D
(2015)
Sex, gender and work segregation in the cultural industries.
in The Sociological review
Hesmondhalgh D
(2010)
'A very complicated version of freedom': Conditions and experiences of creative labour in three cultural industries
in Poetics
Hesmondhalgh D
(2010)
Normativity and Social Justice in the Analysis of Creative Labour
in Journal for Cultural Research
Hesmondhalgh D
(2013)
Creative Labour
Hesmondhalgh D
(2008)
Creative Work and Emotional Labour in the Television Industry
in Theory, Culture & Society