Open Access Books

Hancock, P. & Tyler, M. (2025). Performing Artists and Precarity: Work in the Contemporary Entertainment Industries. This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK’s live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, showing how their experiences of the pandemic provide …

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Pulignano, V., & Domecka, M. (2025). The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the study of unpaid labour can help address inequality in precarious work (p. 320). Oxford University Press. This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help …

Pulignano, V., & Domecka, M. (2025). The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the study of unpaid labour can help address inequality in precarious work (p. 320). Oxford University Press. Read More »

Zervou, N. (2024) Performing the Greek Crisis: Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity. University of Michigan Press. Performing the Greek Crisis explores the impact of the Greek financial crisis (2009–19) on the performing arts sector in Greece, and especially on contemporary concert dance. When Greece became the first European Union member to be threatened …

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Hersted, L., Chemi, T., & Jensen, J. B. (2014). Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity: Processes of Learning Creating and Organising. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. Throughout the literature of creative learning, many assumptions and even stereotypes about the artists’ creativity are nurtured, often according to myths going back to the Romanticism. The authors have been …

Hersted, L., Chemi, T., & Jensen, J. B. (2014). Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity: Processes of Learning Creating and Organising. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. Read More »

Abbing, H. (2008). Why are artists poor?: the exceptional economy of the arts (p. 368). Amsterdam University Press. Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low incomes. But their …

Abbing, H. (2008). Why are artists poor?: the exceptional economy of the arts (p. 368). Amsterdam University Press. Read More »