2016), comprised with artists within what some authors call the new “creative class” (Florida 2002, Howkins 2001). High levels of unemployment, diffused precarious and undeclared work, strong seasonality, non-routine activities, emotional involvement and self-exploitation, job diversification, entrepreneurial skills and portfolio careers: those features, typically defining artistic work (Becker 1982, Menger 1999, Paradeise 1998), seem to apply to an increasing number of workers (Bertolini, Rizza 2004), especially those in the knowledge sector (Murgia et al. If occupational conditions defining artistic labour markets were considered as atypical in modern industrial societies, in contemporary post-industrial ones they become seen as paradigmatic of work in the so-called “gig economy” or “platform capitalism” (Cloonan, Williamson 2017, Srnicek 2016). The main aim of this Special Issue is to shed light on the restructuring of artistic work in the context of the wider global transformations affecting the socio-economic regulation of capitalist societies, with their national or subnational variations.
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