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Culture is bad for you : inequality in the cultural and creative industries
Brook, Orian2020
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This title 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. Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between race, class, and gender in the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural occupations. Exclusion from culture begins at an early age, the authors argue, and despite claims by cultural institutions and businesses to hire talented and hardworking individuals, women, people of colour, and those from working-class backgrounds are systematically disbarred. While the inequalities that characterise both workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised.
Main title:
Culture is bad for you : inequality in the cultural and creative industries / Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, and Mark Taylor.
Author:
Imprint:
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Collation:
xvii, 361 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1 Introduction2 Is culture good for you?3 Who works in culture?4 Who consumes culture?5 When does inequality begin in cultural workers' lives?6 Is it still good work if you're not getting paid?7 Was there a golden age?8 How is inequality experienced?9 Why don't women run culture?10 What about the men?11 ConclusionIndex
ISBN:
9781526144164 (pbk)
Dewey class:
338.477
LC class:
HD9999.C9472
Language:
English
Subject:
Cultural industries -- Social aspectsDiscriminationIndustryIndustry & industrial studiesSocial classesSocial discrimination & equal treatmentSociology: work & labourMedia, entertainment, information & communication industriesPopular cultureCentral / national / federal government policiesDiplomacySociety & culture: generalEthnic minorities & multicultural studies
BRN:
985571