Cultural Work

Andrew Beck is head of Communication Culture and Media at Coventry University. His co-author of AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction, also published by Routledge.

• List of contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction: cultural work, cultural workplace – looking at the cultural industries, PART I Conditions, PART II Practice, PART III Organization, PART IV Representation, Index

'The great achievement of this collection is to bring together academics and cultural workers who can write eloquently about the vitally important but shamefully neglected topic of cultural work. The results are always interesting, often enlightening and sometimes brilliant.' David Hesmondhalgh, The Open University, author of The Cultural Industries