Chuck Kleinhans - Creative Industries and the Cold Hard Facts of Global Capitalism
capitalism
- "capitalism thrives on imperial conquest" (exploiting natural resources)
- capitalism is about expanding and maximizing capital itself (in any market sector)
- capital accumulation is unregulated => environmental destruction and global warming, labour exploitation
precarity
- Richard Florida left out the whole creative industry based on the idea of precocity
- precarious labour is not necessarily linked to globalization, information technology and shifts from manufacturing to service economies, but it is a deliberate policy and aspect of neoliberalism in its relation to labour force
- Floridas point of view that the creative industry is very important for the further development for the market and that it will provide jobs only applies to the pre Recession time (before 2008)
- current recessions began by first hitting industrial jobs and service and administrative jobs, for the recession beginning last December 2007 the most cuts were made in the creative industry
- definition problem of creative industry
effectivity of cultural industry
- since the recession the creative industry has to work harder for the same salary => neoliberalism causes accelerating the exploitation of humans
because of two reasons:
1 it arises an atmosphere of fear => people start thinking that they should be happy to have a job
2 because for many people with a creative job it is more satisfying to have a self-determined job than have financial security here Kleinhans contradicts Florida who considers that the market and therefor the cultural industry is determined by accumulation