Pathways into Creative Working Lives (Hardcover)

1. Creative aspiration and the betrayal of promise? The experience of new creative workers.- 2. Unexpected enterprises: Remixing creative entrepreneurship.- 3. New entrants' narrations of their aspirations and experiences of media production work.- 4. Creative graduates’ pathways in the hybrid cultural economy of contemporary Russia.- 5. Young women’s aspirations and transitions into, through and away from contemporary creative work.- 6. Working the field: career pathways amongst artists and writers in Shanghai.- 7. In the orbit of the art biennial: reflecting on the networks of donors, mediators, artists and curators.- 8. ‘Meaning and soul’: co-working, creative career and independent co-work spaces.- 9. Expat agencies: Expatriation and exploitation in the creative industries in the UK and the Netherlands.- 10. “Diversity” initiatives and addressing inequalities in craft.- 11. Becoming and Being a Creative and Entrepreneurial Mom in Finland.- 12. It started with the arts and now it concerns all sectors: The case of Smart, a cooperative of ‘salaried autonomous workers’.- 13. Reputation and Personal Branding in the Platform Economy.- 14. Cities’ hope labour in insecure times:  On aspiring creative industries, travelling expectations and aesthetic pedagogies.- 15. New pathways into creative work?.