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Performing Artists and Precarity - Philip Hancock, Melissa Tyler

Performing Artists and Precarity

Work in the Contemporary Entertainment Industries
Buch | Hardcover
XI, 133 Seiten
2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-66118-1 (ISBN)
CHF 59,90 inkl. MwSt

This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK's live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, showing how their experiences of the pandemic provide insight into the different types of precarity shaping what it means to be a live performer.

A growing body of academic research has focused on the meaning, experience, and nature of precarity for those working in the cultural and creative sector, highlighting the problem of socio-economic precarity. This book demonstrates how a constant struggle for recognition also shapes the contours and lived experiences of live performance work. It emphasizes how, combined with affective and socio-economic forms of precarity, this recognitive precarity creates a distinctive and challenging set of working conditions.

Drawing on original data generated through a national survey of self-employed and freelance performers across the live entertainment industries, combined with insights derived from a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews, this book presents an empirically rich insight into the struggles and opportunities presented by the multiple forms of precarity that the pandemic brought to the fore. It gives voice to a precarious workforce that remains integral to one of the UK's most economically buoyant sectors but whose experiences are often marginalized in academic research, and in policy and practice. It will, therefore, offer a unique insight for both students and scholars of work and employment, and for those working in the cultural and creative sector, into the distinctive nature of work as a freelance or self-employed live performer.

Philp Hancock is a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK.

 

Melissa Tyler is a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK.

Introduction.- Precarity in Freelance Work and Self-Employment.- Precarity and Work in The UK Cultural and Creative Sector.- Researching Precarious Work Experiences.- COVID-19 and Its Impact.- The Challenges of Financial and Operational Precarity.- Precarity, Identity and the Meaning of Cultural and Creative Work.- Live Entertainers and Extended Forms of Precarity.- Beyond Precarity?  Towards a Fairer Future for Live Performers.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XI, 133 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Wirtschaft
Schlagworte Covid-19 • creative workforce • Crisis Management • lockdown • open access • Pandemic • performers • Self-Employment • working lives
ISBN-10 3-031-66118-4 / 3031661184
ISBN-13 978-3-031-66118-1 / 9783031661181
Zustand Neuware
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