Academia parallels creative industries in precarity and contingent labor

Evidence

There are much less idealized features that are associated with creative—and increasingly academic—labor, including long hours, heightened instability, and an over-reliance on contingent employees: freelancers, unpaid interns, and spec workers in the former case, adjunct faculty in the latter. — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love, 615

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Creative-city doctrine gets coopted into capturing worker creativity for capitalist discipline — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 460; The discourse of creativity masks real needs that capitalism cannot actually satisfy — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 572

Broader Connections

• Creative-city doctrine gets coopted into capturing worker creativity for capitalist discipline #expands (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 460
• The discourse of creativity masks real needs that capitalism cannot actually satisfy #corroborates (0.78) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 572