Labor in the Global Digital Economy by Huws Ursula

Author:Huws, Ursula
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2014-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

WHAT IS DISTINCTIVE ABOUT CREATIVE WORK?

As already noted, it is impossible to draw an absolute line between creative work and other forms of knowledge work in any structural analysis that looks at its relation to capital. Nevertheless, if we change the focus to the agency of creative workers and the ways in which their occupational identities have been socially and historically shaped, it becomes possible to identify some features, which, though neither unique to these creative workers nor universally prevalent among them, could be said to characterize them in certain distinctive ways. They are of interest here because they may be hypothesized to shape these workers’ attitudes to their work and their relationships with employers and clients.

One of these features is a high commitment to the work itself. Applying one’s mind to solving a new problem, as opposed to repeating a known activity, is of the essence in creative work, a process that Karl Marx in the Grundrisse described in these terms:

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