Pathways into Creative Working Lives

Stephanie Taylor is Professor of Social Psychology at The Open University, UK. She is co-author of Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work (2012) and co-editor of The New Normal of Working Lives (2018).Susan Luckman is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of South Australia. She is author of Craft and the Creative Economy (2015) and co-editor of The New Normal of Working Lives (2018).

• 1. Creative aspiration and the betrayal of promise? The experience of new creative workers.- 2. Unexpected enterprises: Remixing creative entrepreneurship.- 3. New entrants' narrations of their aspirations and experiences of media production work.- 4. Creative graduates’ pathways in the hybrid cultural economy of contemporary Russia.- 5. Young women’s aspirations and transitions into, through and away from contemporary creative work.- 6. Working the field: career pathways amongst artists and writers in Shanghai.- 7. In the orbit of the art biennial: reflecting on the networks of donors, mediators, artists and curators.- 8. ‘Meaning and soul’: co-working, creative career and independent co-work spaces.- 9. Expat agencies: Expatriation and exploitation in the creative industries in the UK and the Netherlands.- 10. “Diversity” initiatives and addressing inequalities in craft.- 11. Becoming and Being a Creative and Entrepreneurial Mom inFinland.- 12. It started with the arts and now it concerns all sectors: The case of Smart, a cooperative of ‘salaried autonomous workers’.- 13. Reputation and Personal Branding in the Platform Economy.- 14. Cities’ hope labour in insecure times:  On aspiring creative industries, travelling expectations and aesthetic pedagogies.- 15. New pathways into creative work?.