Simon McKerrell explores recent research showing that even if you work hard, you won’t necessarily thrive in the arts – especially if you’re from a working class background.
In a recently published paper 'Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey' (in the journal Cultural Trends) by Dave O’Brien, Daniel Laurison, Andrew Miles & Sam Friedman (Goldsmiths, LSE and Manchester), they reveal the first really useful evidence-based analysis of class and the cultural and creative industries.
They suggest that the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) are not really meritocratic, and working class people are significantly underrepresented, they go further and identify the worst industries as music and publishing (with crafts being the most diverse and meritocratic). The introduce the idea of a 'class origin pay gap' whereby one's origin has a determining factor on how much people earn in the Cultural and Creative Industries... Keep reading on Piper Simon
In a recently published paper 'Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey' (in the journal Cultural Trends) by Dave O’Brien, Daniel Laurison, Andrew Miles & Sam Friedman (Goldsmiths, LSE and Manchester), they reveal the first really useful evidence-based analysis of class and the cultural and creative industries.
They suggest that the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) are not really meritocratic, and working class people are significantly underrepresented, they go further and identify the worst industries as music and publishing (with crafts being the most diverse and meritocratic). The introduce the idea of a 'class origin pay gap' whereby one's origin has a determining factor on how much people earn in the Cultural and Creative Industries... Keep reading on Piper Simon