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A comparative analysis of the economic sustainability of cultural work in the UK since the COVID-19 pandemic and examination of universal basic income as a solution for cultural workers
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Doustaly, Cécile and Roy, Vishalakshi (2022) A comparative analysis of the economic sustainability of cultural work in the UK since the COVID-19 pandemic and examination of universal basic income as a solution for cultural workers. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15 (5). e196. doi:10.3390/jrfm15050196 ISSN 1911-8074.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15050196
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns across the world have greatly affected an already vulnerable cultural economy and the structural precarity of many cultural workers. After documenting the impacts of the pandemic in the cultural sector and the effectiveness of governmental responses in the UK and in Europe, the article focuses on the visual arts and explores calls for reforms of the cultural economy. While the UK government’s recovery plan went against the country’s cultural policy tradition due to the plan’s interventionist and financially generous nature, it disproportionally benefitted organisations rather than individuals working in the sector, especially in England. The study, conducted on visual arts workers in the UK, shows that many were unable to access these financial recovery schemes and fell through the cracks of the complex criteria set for these funds. This article informs the current debate on measures that are potentially more economically sustainable and wellbeing protective than those currently in place for cultural workers, such as Universal Basic Income. Its applicability is explored with reference to the historic French and recent Irish examples.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies | |||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cultural industries -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain, Cultural industries -- Employees, Great Britain -- Cultural policy -- Economic aspects, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain, Basic income -- Great Britain | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Risk and Financial Management | |||||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1911-8074 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 21 April 2022 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 15 | |||||||||
| Number: | 5 | |||||||||
| Article Number: | e196 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/jrfm15050196 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | ** From MDPI via Jisc Publications Router ** History: accepted 13-04-2022; pub-electronic 21-04-2022. ** Licence for this article: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 June 2022 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 June 2022 | |||||||||
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