Isbn: 9781570274077 - the wages of dreamwork: class composition & the social reproduction of cultural labor (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Creative workers find themselves celebrated as engines of economic growth, economic recovery and urban revitalization even as the conditions for our continued survival becomes more precarious. How can you make a living today in such a situation That is, how to hold together the demands of paying the rent and bills while managing all the tasks necessary to support one''s practice How to manage the tensions between creating spaces for creativity and imagination while working through the constraints posed by economic conditions In a more traditional workplace it is generally easy to distinguish between those who planned and managed the labor process and those who were involved in its executions: between the managers and the managed. For creative workers these distinctions become increasingly hard to make. Today the passionate and self-motivated labor of the artisan increasingly becomes the model for a self-disciplining, self-managed labor force that works harder, longer, and often for less pay precisely because of its attachment to some degree of personal fulfillment in forms of engaging work. And that ain''t no way to make a living, having to struggle three times as hard for just to have a sense of engagement in meaningful work. The Wages of Dreamwork investigates how cultural workers in the modern metropolis manage these competing tensions and demands. Does the cultural economy treat you as a tool If so, perhaps it''s time to rethink how to down tools in this metropolitan factory.…

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