Creative labor as moral and ethical subjects and its limitation
Creative City Yokohama, Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12672003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Changwook Kim (0000-0002-7657-2094, Global Leadership School, Handong Global University, Pohang, South Korea, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-55 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9373 • E-ISSN: 1469-8447 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649373.2019.1576396 |
| OpenAlex | W2932010558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 28 |
This study aims to reconsider and re-evaluate the rapid circulation of global creative city policy from the viewpoint of its creative workforce by focusing on the case of Yokohama, Japan. To shed light on this workforce’s everyday experiences and labor subjectivity, this investigation draws ideas from recent research trends of “creative labor” from the field of media and cultural studies, sociology of work, and political economy of communication. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations, this research focuses on how the ethical and moral dimensions of labor subjectivity in creative work are prominently important in explaining Yokohama workers’ everyday living and working experiences as creative labor. Unexpectedly, this study found that these moral and ethical sentiments and actions, which take on the role of retaining their labor motivation, actually limit the development of political subjects who can resist given precarious working conditions and thereby hinder them from building a collective solidarity as “workers.” Thus this investigation concludes that the creative worker’s subjectivity retreats to solely a moral dimension rather than to a political one. Through this finding, this study explores whether the articulation of moral-political and social values in the course of cultural work can evolve from creative workers’ moral and ethical sensitivities and actions
Creative industries · Creative work · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Subjectivity · Workforce · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Law
Risk Society
Creative Labour
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
Work Ethics, Soft Capitalism and the ‘Turn to Life’
Precarious creativity
Venture Labor
Media and Cultural Studies
Precarious Japan
Bodies That Remember
Labor and the Limits of Seduction in Korea’s Creative Economy
The Ethics of Insecurity
The political subjectivization of Korean creative workers
Locating creative city policy in East Asia
Craft labour and creative industries
Urban regeneration through cultural creativity and social inclusion
Television production
Homelessness in Osaka
An Aftermath of Globalisation? East Asian Economic Turmoil and Japanese Cities Adrift
Risk and trust in the cultural industries
Risk society
Invited by the State
Ordinary Refugees
Beyond the Model Worker
In the Social Factory
Moral Economy and Cultural Work
Introduction
Confronting Precarity in the Warhol Economy
Representations of Precarity in Italy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |