Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between race, class, and gender in the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural occupations. Exclusion from culture begins at an early age, the authors argue, and despite claims by cultural institutions and businesses to hire talented and hardworking individuals, women, people of colour, and those from working-class backgrounds are systematically disbarred. While the inequalities that characterise both workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised. -- .
| ISBN: | 9781526144164 |
| Publication date: | 14th September 2020 |
| Author: | Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, Mark Taylor |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Genres: |
Social classes Social discrimination and equal treatment Sociology: work and labour Media, entertainment, information and communication industries |