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

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

By Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, and Mark Taylor

The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a 'creative class' in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture.

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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publish Date: 11/01/2020
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781526144164
ISBN-10: 1526144166
Language: English

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The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a 'creative class' in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture.

About the Authors

Orian Brook is an AHRC Creative and Digital Economy Innovation Leadership Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Dave O'Brien is a Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Sheffield Mark Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Sheffield.

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Dave O'Brien is Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at City University, UK. He specializes in cultural value and urban cultural policy issues and has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Liverpool, UK.

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Orian Brook is an AHRC Creative and Digital Economy Innovation Leadership Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Dave O'Brien is a Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Sheffield Mark Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Sheffield.

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