| Abstract: |
In the past 20 years, the increasing number of papers in cultural studies,
sociology of the arts and industrial sociology has been focused on
creative/cultural workers. They critically reconsidered the over-optimistic
view on creative workforce presented earlier the cultural economists as R.
Florida, C. Landry and others. However, there are still many topics, which
remain understudied. First, most of the studies were focused on free-lancers,
short contract and self-employed workers and still exclude those who are
employed full-time or strongly tied with an institutional organization.
Furthermore, while much research has been devoted to the UK, other regions or
global concerns have gained little attention. This paper aims to bridge
abovementioned gap at least partly by presenting an empirical case of
full-time workers in Moscow art-centres, based on 20 in-depth interviews and
20 observations at the workplaces and public events of these centres. |