Creative workers are employed in sectors outside the creative industries often in greater numbers than within the creative field. This is the first book to explore the phenomena of the embedded creative and creative services through a range of sectors, disciplines, and perspectives. Despite the emergence of the creative worker, there is very little known about the work life of these ‘creatives’, and why companies seek to employ them. This book asks: how does creative work actually “embed” into a service or product supply chain? What are creative services? Which industries are they working in? This collection explores these questions in relation to innovation, employment and education, using various methods and theoretical approaches, in order to examine the value of the embedded creative and to discover the implications of education and training for creative workers. This book will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers and industry leaders in the creative industries, in particular digital media, application development, design, journalism, media and communication. It will also appeal to academics and scholars of innovation, cultural studies, business management and labour studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Creative Work beyond the Creative Industries: An introduction Part I: Foundational Issues 2. Creative Labour and its Discontents: A reappraisal 3. Compensating Differentials in Creative Industries and Occupations: Some Evidence from HILDA 4. Digital Creative Services in Education, Mining and Manufacturing: Pursuing Innovation through Interoperability 5. London’s Creative Workforce Part II: Case Studies of Embedded Creative Employment 6. Embedded Creatives in Australian Healthcare – An Update 7. Embedded Creatives in the Australian Manufacturing Industry 8. Embedded Digital Creatives 9. Embedded Digital Creative Workers and Creative Services in Banking 10. Looking Inside the Portfolio to Understand the Work of Creative Workers: A Study of Creatives in Perth Part III: Education, Learning and Careers 11. Learning Processes in Creative Services Teams: Towards a Dynamic Systems Theory 12. Translating Creative Skills: An Example of Youthworx Media for Marginalized Youth 13. Developing Agency in the Creative Career: A Design-Based Framework for Work Integrated Learning 14. Graduate Careers in Journalism, Media and Communications Within and Outside the Sector: Early Career Outcomes, Trajectories and Capabilities Index