Xin Gu is Director of the Master of Cultural and Creative Industries and Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.
This book is a major contribution to the current hot debate on cultural work. It asks questions not just about exploitation and sacrificial labour, or about diversity and representation. It goes beyond these to ask what's at stake in cultural work. What values do cultural workers bring and how do they sustain in increasingly challenging circumstances. After the end of the creative industries what way forward for art and culture and those who dedicate theirs lives to producing them. Justin O'Connor, University of South Australia