CREATIVE JUSTICE: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES, WORK AND INEQUALITY
MARK BANKS
Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and the cultural workplace. It offers a comprehensive and considered account of the state-of-the field in cultural studies and sociological thinking about cultural and creative industries work, education and employment, and seeks to address fundamental questions about the constitution of equality and inequality in the creative industries. .
Mark Banks is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. His interest is in the cultural and creative industries, especially in relation to work and identity, employment, cultural policy and cultural value. He is the author of The Politics of Cultural Work (2007) and co-editor of Theorizing Cultural Work (2013, with Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Taylor). In 2016 he was appointed as the Director of the Cultural and Media Economies Institute (CAMEo) at the University of Leicester.
