Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy

Archiving the Pandemic
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Archiving the Pandemic

Saber(com)vida

Lauren England

Roberta Comunian

Journal Cultural Trends

Overview

Albeit focused on the UK context, the article by Roberta Comunian and Lauren England provides an indispensable analysis of a drama that links the COVID-19 virus and pandemic in producing an unsustainable situation - the precariousness of workers in the cultural and creative sector. The emergence and spread of the virus has exposed the fragility of these individuals, their jobs and families, underlining the invisible crisis they have always experienced, obviously exacerbated by the pandemic and the confinement. The authors point out the need for a long-term investment plan, aiming at a sustainable and inclusive growth fit into the new agendas of the “creative social economy”.