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Culture is Bad for You
Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries, Revised and Updated Edition
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The revised and updated edition of this popular title shines a light on the precarious situation of art workers today. Culture keeps you fit and healthy. Culture brings communities together. Culture improves your education. This is the message endlessly repeated by the government and arts organisations....
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This book paints an unflinching portrait of the situation for arts and culture workers in Britain today. Revised and updated with the latest figures, it exposes how minorities continue to be marginalised in the post-COVID era.
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The revised and updated edition of this popular title shines a light on the precarious situation of art workers today.
Culture keeps you fit and healthy. Culture brings communities together. Culture improves your education. This is the message endlessly repeated by the government and arts organisations. But, as this ground-breaking book explains, we need to be cautious about culture.
Culture is Bad For You presents an unflinching portrait of the cultural landscape in the UK today. It reveals how women, people of colour, and those from working-class backgrounds are systematically excluded, despite the claims of cultural institutions and businesses. Updated to provide a report on the situation after COVID, this edition reveals that despite grand promises from those at the top, exclusion and precarity remain the norm.
While inequalities of workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised. This book offers a powerful call to transform cultural and creative industries.
'If you'd like something to wave in the face of naysayers who think the cream always rises to the top, this is it.' Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526177810
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Illustration: 27 black & white illustrations
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 359g
Pages: 408
About the Author
Orian Brook is a Chancellor's Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
Dave O'Brien is a Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Sheffield.
Mark Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Sheffield.
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