Hmm, well that hits close to home.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Charles Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vze26m98@optonline.net">vze26m98@optonline.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Yet the ethnographic evidence on knowledge and creative industry<br>
workplaces shows that job gratification, for creatives, still comes at a<br>
heavy sacrificial cost – longer hours in pursuit of the satisfying<br>
finish, price discounts in return for aesthetic recognition,<br>
self-exploitation in response to the gift of autonomy, and<br>
dispensability in exchange for flexibility. If policymakers were to<br>
undertake official surveys of the quality of work life, they would find<br>
the old formula for creative work very much alive and well in its newly<br>
marketized environment. In this respect, arguably the most<br>
instrumentally valuable aspect of the creative work traditions is the<br>
carry-over of coping strategies, developed over centuries, to help<br>
endure a feast-or-famine economy in return for the promise of success<br>
and acclaim. The combination of this coping mentality with a production<br>
code of aesthetic perfectibility is a godsend for managers looking for<br>
employees capable of self-discipline under the most extreme job<br>
pressure. It is no surprise, then, that the 'artist' has been seen as<br>
the new model worker for high-skill, high-reward employment."<br>
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