Description:
Creative Labour provides an insight into the unique employment issues affecting workers in film, television, theatre, arts, music, radio and new media.
In the UK alone, more than 1 million people work in the creative industries, generating billions of pounds in exports each year. These workers have to contend with elastic working hours, employment and promotion uncertainty and vigorous competition for each role. Creative Labour offers a contemporary perspective on a fascinating area of study and a rapidly growing area in developed economies. Key benefits: - Grasp the realities of work behind the industry façade - Evaluate real-life case-studies through a flexible, critical mindset - Tailor your management decisions to the needs of creative staffBrief description: ALAN MCKINLAY is Professor of Management at Heriott-Watt University, UK.
Review Quotes: 'This is indeed a growing field for a couple of reasons, I think. First, of course, is that the arts have become much more 'managed' and have added a lot of positions in management, marketing and accounting. Second, as the proposal suggests, government policy is encouraging this in the way it funds the arts and looks to the arts as economic development. Third, new media formats really have opened up new possibilities for the circulation of new creative commodities and with these possibilities jobs have opened up. The proposal is right to suggest it is somewhat unique, and that there is a market. I can also tell you that Alan McKinlay enjoys a very strong reputation in the field of business and management as a scholar (if you do not know this already), and as someone who has brought labour process theory forward into this era. He is also extremely professional and easy to deal with, and you can be confident of a strong product if he is in charge.A number of the other scholars in the col