Introduction: Imagining equitable working life in the creative industries – constructions, challenges, contradictions

Sheree Gregory; Fabian Cannizzo; Yinghua Yu; Tom Barnes

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Introduction: Imagining equitable working life in the creative industries – constructions, challenges, contradictions

Sheree Gregory^*, Fabian Cannizzo, Yinghua Yu, Tom Barnes

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Australian Institute of Health Innovation

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This special issue of the Journal of Sociology explores ‘Equity in the creative industries’ in the context of a changing employment landscape in Australia. Inequality is central to understanding the social consequences and distribution of cultural work. The COVID-19 pandemic, rise of digital cultural production, growth of media sharing platforms, and instability of changes in government (and policy) have both disrupted and re-organised cultural work. This collection of articles aims to develop debate on competing imaginaries of the lived experiences of workers, and to shed light on the struggle and complexities of contemporary creative labour.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	363-372
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Sociology
Volume	61
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833251364910
Publication status	Published - Sept 2025

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Keywords

Australia
creative industries
equity
meaningful work
precarious work
sociology of work

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