Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work

This book examines a range of timely issues such as the gender, racial, and class inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries; the ways in which entrepreneurialism - as an ethos to work on and improve the self - is lived out; and the subjective experiences of precarious work in so-called 'creative cities'.

Christina Scharff is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London

List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Setting the stage: the cultural and creative industries, entrepreneurialism, and the classical music profession 2 Documenting and explaining inequalities in the classical music profession 3 The silence that is not a rest: negotiating hierarchies of class, race, and gender 4 Entrepreneurialism at work: mapping the contours of entrepreneurial subjectivity 5 "Difficult, fickle, tumultuous" and yet "the best job in the world": analysing subjective experiences of precarious work 6 Structures of feeling in two creative cities: London and Berlin Conclusion: key contributions, directions for further research, and recommendations