In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines. The debate in this -turn to cultural work- has largely been based around evaluating its advantages and disadvantages: its freedoms and its constraints, its informal but precarious nature, the inequalities within its global workforce, and the blurring of work-life boundaries leading to -self-exploitation-.
While academic critics have persuasively challenged more optimistic accounts of -converged- worlds of creative production, the critical debate on cultural work has itself leant heavily towards suggesting a profoundly new confluence of forces and effects. Theorizing Cultural Work instead views cultural work through a specifically historicized and temporal lens, to ask: what novelty can we actually attach to current conditions, and precisely what relation does cultural work have to social precedent? The contributors to this vo
