KUMS044 Work, Economy, and Culture (5 cr)
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Description
Learning outcomes
EN: On completion of the course, the student will
be able to examine culture from the perspectives of creative work, entrepreneurship and expertise
be familiar with contemporary changes and challenges in culture, work and the economy, as well as with different theories of work and the economy, and
be able to dentify different forms of work in cultural sectors and economies from art to cultural production and management.
Additional information
EN: Recommended for majors to be taken in the 4th or 5th year of study.
Description of prerequisites
Kulttuurialan työelämä KUMA005
Compulsory prerequisites
- Prerequisite group 1
Study materials
EN: The instructor in charge will provide and/or inform about the literature to be used in the independent work. For the book examination, three works from the following list will be chosen:
Armstrong, Kelly 2015: Managing the Commons in the Knowledge Economy.
Hann, Chris & Parry, Jonathan (eds.) 2018: Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject.
Kwon Jong, Bum and Lane, Carrie M (eds.) 2016: Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence.
McRobbie, Angela 2015: Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries.
Raunig, Gerald, Ray, Gene & Wuggenig, Ulf (eds.) 2015: Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’.
Standing, Guy 2011: Precariat: New Dangerous Class.
Susskind, Richard & Susskind, Daniel 2015: The Future of Professions.