Brook, O., O’Brien, D. and Taylor, M. orcid.org/0000-0001-5943-9796 (2020) “There’s no way that you get paid to do the arts”: unpaid labour across the cultural and creative life course. Sociological Research Online, 25 (4). pp. 571-588. ISSN 1360-7804
Abstract
Unpaid labour is an important element of how precarity has been theorised. It is also an issue that is often seen as endemic to cultural and creative work. Questions as to the role of unpaid work, including but not limited to unpaid internships, have become central to understanding how the social exclusiveness of many cultural and creative jobs is reinforced through their precarity. This article uses survey and interview data to outline the differing experiences of unpaid labour in cultural jobs. It contrasts the meaning of ‘free’ work over the life courses of a range of creative workers, showing how it is stratified by social class, age, and career stage. By exploring the stratification of unpaid work as a form of precariousness in cultural jobs, and of who describes their experiences of unpaid work as benign, the article offers new empirical evidence for those challenging the negative impacts of precarious working conditions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | age; class; cultural and creative industries; cultural work; internships; precarious; unpaid work |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AH/S004483/1 ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AH/P013155/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2022 16:51 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2022 16:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1360780419895291 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182875 |