Beyond the Model Worker: Surveying a Creative Precariat

The figure of the self-reliant, risk-bearing, non-unionised, self-exploiting, always-on flexibly employed worker in the creative industries has been positioned as a role model of contemporary capitalism. Although the notion of the model-worker is a compelling critical diagnostic of the self-manageme...

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Main Author: Greig de Peuter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2014-02-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146263