Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries

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Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries

Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries

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If you are authenticated and think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian. The book combines the first large-scale study of social mobility into cultural and creative jobs, hundreds of interviews with creative workers, and a detailed analysis of secondary datasets. The book shows how unpaid work is endemic to the cultural occupations, excluding those without money and contacts. Which stories get told is a result of how cultural production is organised’ (Brook, O’Brien and Taylor, 2020: 14). It’s also massively to do with being a woman of colour… They would much rather hire the white dude, and they feel more comfortable with the white dude, than the bolshy brown woman who seems to have done things that they don’t feel comfortable with.

What we found was that the proportions change a lot over time because the social class profile of the broader society changes over time. There really is an arts emergency, the reality of the class crisis is shocking, but this book shows how we can do something right now to change things.For women of colour who are socially mobile, the experience of cultural occupations and cultural institutions is of an often hostile environment.

However, the relation between autonomy and capitalist cultural production deserves more attention across social backgrounds. It is precisely this belief in The Good of arts and culture that is the central issue of Culture Is Bad for You, a collaboration between social scientists Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor. She told us her gender, and the colour of her skin, were given less value than those of her white, male colleagues. But occasional crises showed that faith in the system was tied to contemporary concerns about the medical profession, the power of the state and attitudes to individual vaccines. We use cookies for different reasons, including measuring your visits to our sites and remembering your preferences.If you've ever felt on shaky ground describing your experience of inequality in the arts, if you've ever wondered if it's really true that some people are excluded from participation in cultural production and representation, if you'd like something to wave in the face of naysayers who think the cream always rises to the top, this is it. What role should the labour movement – trade unions, trades councils, the Labour Party and other political parties – play?

Why people might be so keen to hold on to the ‘illusion of meritocracy’… and what this all means for emerging creatives hoping to break into the creative and cultural industries? It’s easy to blame broader structures for the inequalities in the sector, rather than taking responsibility. Human identity is neither rigidly determined nor unpredictable and spontaneous, but between those two extremes is the forum on which the public life of humanity is generated. Our social mobility work looked back, from people born in the 1950s to people born in the 1980s, early 90s, and for each decade, looked at what proportion of people from different social class backgrounds got into creative jobs. She is a South Asian woman from a middle-class background, living in London and working in film and TV.When you have a sector that large numbers of people want to work in, people who go in with better resources are in a stronger position. This can’t be overturned with changes to how the Arts Council distributes money; I often find myself thinking that the most significant way to confront inequalities in the cultural sector would be to transform legislation around private rented accommodation.



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