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    ALL CITIES ARE DIFFERENT: Moving creative workforce research forward to a new specificity

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    Authors
    Bennett, Dawn
    Fitzgerald, Scott
    Rainnie, Al
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Bennett, Dawn and Fitzgerald, Scott and Rainnie, Al. 2011. All cities are different: Moving creative workforce research forward to a new specificity, in Whitzman, C. and Fincher, R. (ed), State of Australian Cities National Conference 2011, Nov 29-Dec 2 2011. Melbourne: Australian Sustainable Cities and Regions Network.
    Source Conference
    State of Australian Cities National Conference 2011
    ISBN
    978-0-646-56805-8
    School
    Centre for Research and Graduate Studies-Humanities
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32144
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The cultural sector and its workforce are often positioned as economic drivers, and important themes within this discourse have included relationships between the cultural sector and human capital, urban regeneration, community engagement, branding, and image. Little of the research underpinning these arguments has documented the work practices, orientations, attitudes, career trajectories and skill requirements of individual creative workers, and even less has considered the spatially specific nature of labour conditions and career trajectories to produce a differentiated analysis of work and career. What happens within any locality over time will partially result from the changing roles it plays within the broader spatial divisions of labour within which it is emplaced. However, we argue that it is insufficient to claim that all cities are different; rather, there is a need to examine the specificity of work in each location.In this paper, the second in a series that examine specific elements of creative work, we consider spatiality with specific reference to the use of networks. Drawing on a case study of the film and television industries in Perth we raise the possibility of approaching such research by combining the global production network approach, labour process analysis, and research that looks within individual practice.

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