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Book SynopsisIn this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the euphoric moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment.
Trade Review"From the person who more or less invented cultural labour studies as we know it comes this important set of essays, full of political passion and brilliant insight."
David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds
"We are so fortunate to have McRobbie as an expert guide, mapping this complex cultural terrain. The book is essential reading for those trying to understand creativity within the cultural landscape, how we got here, and the role of neoliberal economies in building and reproducing what it means to be ‘creative’."
Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Table of ContentsIntroduction: From The Social Network to The ‘Flexible Frau’, Visions of Creative Economy
Chapter One: Unpacking the Politics of Creative Labour: The Rise of the Urban Hipster Economy
Chapter Two: The Artist as Human Capital: Looking Back at London, New Labour and the ‘Modernisation of Culture’.
Chapter Three: Club to Company
Chapter Four: Gender and Work in the New Creative Economy
Chapter Five: The Time and Space of Creative Labour: A response to the writing of Richard Sennett
Chapter Six: Fashion Matters Berlin: Start Ups Scenes and Female Social Enterprise
Chapter Seven: Conclusion; Concepts for Project Working in a European Frame
