Reading Recommendations
Alacovska, Ana, and Rosalind Gill, De-Westernising Creative Labour Studies. The Informality of Creative Work from an Ex-Centric Perspective, in: International Journal of Cultural Studies 22, 2 (2019), 195-212.
Amlinger, Carolin, Schreiben. Eine Soziologie literarischer Arbeit, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2021.
Banks, Mark, Fit and Working Again? The Instrumental Leisure of the `Creative Class', in: Environment and Planning A 41. 2009, 668–681.
Banks, Mark, The Politics of Cultural Work, London 2007.
Becker, Howard S., Art Worlds and Social Types, in: American Behavioral Scientist 19. 1976, 703–718.
Benhamou, Françoise, Artists’ Labour Markets, in: Ruth Towse, ed., Handbook of Cultural Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011, 53-58.
Berghoff, Hartmut, 'Times Change and We Change with Them': The German Advertising Industry in the Third Reich - Between Professional Self-Interest and Political Repression, in: Business History 45, 1. 2003, 128–147.
Bothur, Kristin, Musikmärkte. Die Arbeitssituation und sozioökonomische Lage von Pop- und Rockmusiker*innen in Deutschland, Frankfurt: Campus, 2020.
Bröckling, Ulrich, The Entrepreneurial Self: Fabricating a New Type of Subject, London 2016, 101–120.
Brouillette, Sarah, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.
Brook, Orian et.al., Culture Is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries. Manchester 2020.
Caldwell, John Thornton, Specworld. Folds, Faults and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.
Christopherson, Susan, Beyond the Self-Expressive Creative Worker. An Industry Perspective on Entertainment Media, in: Theory, Culture & Society 25 (2008), 73-95.
David-Guillou, Angèle, Early Musicians' Unions in Britain, France, and the United States. On the Possibilities of Transnational Militant Transfers in an International Industry, in: Labour History Review 74 (2009), 288-304.
Clark, Shannan, The Making of the American Creative Class. New York’s Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Conor, Bridget, Gill, Rosaland, and Stephanie Taylor, Gender and Creative Labour, in: Sociological Review 63, 1 (2015), 1-22.
Cornfield, Barry, Beyond the Beat. Musicians Building Community in Nashville. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Ehrlich, Cyril, The Music Profession in Britain since the Eighteenth Century. A Social History, Oxford: Clarendon, 1985.
Florida, Richard, The Rise of the Creative Class, New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Fisk, Catherine L., Writing for Hire. Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Gilbert, David, The Product of Our Souls. Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace, Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Gill, Rosaland, Pratt, Andy C., and Tarek E. Virani, eds., Creative Hubs in Question. Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy, Cham: Palgrave, 2019.
Glinoer, Anthony et al., Kulturen des Kreativen. Historische Bohème und zeitgenössisches Prekariat, in: Trivium 18 (2014), 2-7.
Grégoire, Mathieu, Closing the Market as the Only Protection? Trade Unions and the Labor Market in the French Performing Arts Industry from 1919 to 1937, in: Sociologie du travail 52 (2010), e40-e63.
Guilford, Joy Paul, Creativity, in: American Psychologist 9, 5. 1950, 444–454.
Hagstrom Miller, Karl, Working Musicians: Exploring the Rhetorical Ties between Musical Labour and Leisure, in: Leisure Studies 27. 2008, 427–441.
Haynes, Jo, and Lee Marshall, Reluctant Entrepreneurs. Musicians and Entrepreneurship in the ‘New’ Music Industry, in: British Journal of Sociology 69, 2 (2018), 459-482.
Hesmondhalgh, David, and Sarah Baker, Creative Work and Emotional Labour in the Television Industry, in: Theory, Culture and Society 25 (2008), 97-118.
Kraft, James P., Stage to Studio. Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950, Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Kuehn, Kathleen, and Thomas F. Corrigan, Hope Labor. The Role of Employment Prospects in Online Social Production, in: Political Economy of Communication 1, 1 (2013), 9-25.
Löhr, Isabella, and Matthias Middell, eds, Kultur als Beruf in Europa. Perspektiven aus Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft, in: Löhr, Isabella et al., eds., Kultur und Beruf in Europa, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2012, 11-25.
Manske, Alexandra, Kapitalistische Geister in der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft. Kreative zwischen wirtschaftlichem Zwang und künstlerischem Drang, Bielefeld: transcript, 2016.
McClelland, Charles E., Organizing Artists, in: id., Prophets, Paupers, or Professionals? A Social History of Everyday Visual Artist in Modern Germany, 1850–Present, Oxford 2003, 115–166.
McRobbie, Angela, Be Creative. Making a Living in the New Cultural Industries, Cambridge: Polity, 2016.
McRobbie, Angela, Clubs to Companies: Notes on the Decline of Political Culture in Speeded up Creative Worlds, in: Cultural Studies 16, 4. 2002, 516–31.
Menger, Pierre-Michel, The Market for Creative Labour. Talent and Inequalities, in: Candace Jones et al., eds., The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 149-171.
Miller, Rachel, Talent on Strike: The Musicians‘ Union and the Early Agonies of the Creative Class, in: Labor 18, 3. 2021, 8–36.
Neff, Gina, Venture Labor. Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2012.
O’Rourke, Chris, Acting for the Silent Screen. Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars, London: I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Oakley, Kate, and Dave O’Brien, Learning to Labour Unequally. Understanding the Relationship between Cultural Production, Cultural Consumption, and Inequality, in: Social Identities 22, 5 (2016), 471-486.
Porter, Laraine, Women Musicians in British Silent Cinema Prior to 1930, in: Journal of British Cinema and Television 10 (2013), 563-583.
Powdermaker, Hortense, Hollywood, the Dream Factory. An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950.
Ramirez, Michael, Destined for Greatness. Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Rempe, Martin, Kunst, Spiel, Arbeit. Musikerleben in Deutschland, 1850 bis 1960, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020.
Rempe, Martin, Jenseits der Globalisierung. Musikermobilität und Musikaustausch im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Boris Barth et al., eds., Globalgeschichten. Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven, Frankfurt: Campus, 2014, 205-228.
Rose, Mark, Authors and Owners. The Invention of Copyright, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Ross, Andrew, The Mental Labour Problem, in: Social Text 18, 2. 2000, 1–31.
Ruppert, Wolfgang, Der moderne Künstler. Zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der kreativen Individualität in der kulturellen Moderne im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1998.
Sandoval, Marisol, Fighting precarity with co-operation? Worker co-operatives in the cultural sector, in: New Formations 88 (2016), 51-68.
Schlesinger, Philip, and Charlotte Waeldle, Copyright and Cultural Work. An Exploration, in: Innovation 25, 1 (2012), 11-28.
Scholz, Juliane, Der Drehbuchautor: USA – Deutschland. Ein historischer Vergleich, Bielefeld: transcript, 2016.
Stahl, Matt, Unfree Masters. Popular Music and the Politics of Work, Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2013.
Stahl, Matt, Nonproprietary Authorship and the Uses of Autonomy. Artistic Labor in American Film Animation, in: Labor 2, 4 (2005), 87-105.
Umney, Charles, and Lefteris Kretsos, Creative Labour and Collective Interaction. The Working Lives of Young Jazz Musicians in London, in: Work, Employment and Society 28, 4 (2014), 571-88.
Verbruggen, Christophe, Intellectual Workers and Their Search for a Place Within the ILO During the Interwar Period, in: J. Van Daele, M. Rodriguez García, G. van Goethem and M. van der Linden, ILO Histories: Essays on the International Labour Organization and its Impact on the World During the Twentieth Century, Bern et.al. 2010, 271–292.
Williamson, John, and Martin Cloonan, Players' Work Time. A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
Zinn, Howard, Kelley, Robin D. G., and Dana Frank, Three Strikes. Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century, Boston: Beacon, 2001.