New forms of employment in a globalised world

Three figures of knowledge workers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21189740
AutoresMarie‐christine Bureau (0000-0001-5188-5484), Marie-Christine Bureau Marie-Christine Bureau, Antonella Corsani, Antonella Corsani Antonella Corsani
Año2016
Volumen10
Número2
Fecha de publicación2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Organisation Labour & Globalisation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1745-641X • E-ISSN: 1745-6428
EditorialPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/workorgalaboglob.10.2.0101
OpenAlexW2558770211
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas7

This article analyses three figures of knowledge workers – performing arts workers, salaried entrepreneurs and makers – examined through their institutional regulation and, mainly, their practices of appropriation of knowledge. All of these workers are positioned outside the regular rules of employment, but their activity is framed by different institutional architectures. Performing art workers are formally salaried but concretely they are almost independent, salaried entrepreneurs are quasi-entrepreneurs even when they are formally salaried, while makers produce autonomous spaces out of employment relationships. These figures are not analysed as professional groups, but through their practices of appropriation of knowledge. This analysis leads to the conclusion that, contrary to the neoliberal model of ‘self-entrepreneurship’, these experiences open up the possibility of producing a new form of autonomy gained by collective action, far from the idealised concept of individualistic autonomy

Appropriation · Autonomy · Business · Entrepreneurship · Epistemology · Individualism · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · The arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law