The spark in the engine: creative workers in a global economy. (1st January 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Work, organisation, labour & globalisation. Volume 1:Number 1(2007)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 12
• Publication Date: 2007-01-01
• Subjects: Work -- Periodicals; Labor -- Periodicals; Division of labor -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; Division of labor; Industrial relations; Labor; Work; Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.1.1.0001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-6428

Abstract

Abstract : Introducing this volume, this paper summarises the contents and offers an analysis of the place of creative work in a global economy, focusing in particular on the restructuring of global value chains and the commodification of knowledge in a process which simultaneously opens up the possibility for new creative tasks for some workers whilst deskilling others. It concludes with a discussion of the contradictions that this presents for creative workers who may be offered a choice between disappointing their own creative aspirations or collaborating in their own exploitation.