Invisible, solidary, unbranded and passionate

Everyday life as a freelance and precarious worker in four Italian radio stations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21189738
AutoresTiziano Bonini (0000-0002-0636-0555), Tiziano Bonini Tiziano Bonini, Alessandro Gandini (0000-0002-7705-7625), Alessandro Gandini Alessandro Gandini
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.10.2.0084
OpenAlexW2558017611
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas31

This article presents an investigation into the everyday lives of freelance radio producers in the Italian radio industry from a perspective that applies the sociology of work to the study of media production. The study adopted an ethnographic approach to explore working conditions and experiences of insecurity, uncertainty, socialising, networking and isolation. The authors identified four features of the radio producers' work, which go well beyond the fact that passion functions as a cover for unfair working conditions. The work of these radio producers is invisible, passionate, unbranded and solidaristic. These features interconnect with the conventional ethos of freelance and precarious workers in the creative industries, where professional identity becomes subsumed by the dominant logic of the industry. If we adopt a Marxist perspective, we could argue that this freelance ‘reserve army’ experiences a specific kind of ‘subsumption’ with roots in the workers' teenage fandom-based milieux and in broader popular culture

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Ethos · Everyday life · Fandom · Marxist philosophy · Media studies · Political science · Precarious work · Precarity · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law