A study on the future of work in the arts and entertainment sector

The International Labour Organization (ILO, or OIT in french), the UN labour agency, has just published a long study on “the future of work in the arts and entertainment sector”. The Zurich Centre For Creatives Economies at ZHdK University had prepared a “working paper” in 2022, part statistics, part policy, which was used for this research. A technical meeting, which took place in Geneva in February 13-17 at ILO, complemented this overall project.

The study focuses on the “opportunities and challenges to decent work in the arts and entertainment sector in the context of key drivers of change and a human-centred COVID-19 recovery”. It also seeks to promote “the fullest employment potential of the arts and entertainment sector to ensure a future of work that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient”. Recommendations, specific to this agency, were also made.

Read the full report here.

(Disclosure : ILO has been a research partner of ZCCE)

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Frédéric Martel

Dr. Frédéric Martel is a Researcher and Writer. He has a PhD in Social Sciences and four Master Degrees in Law, Political science, Philosophy, and Social Science (University of La Sorbonne). Since 2020, Frédéric Martel is professor at the university ZHdK in Zurich and works at the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE). His main field works are: cultural policy, soft power, cultural industries, smart cities, smart curation, the creative class, medias and the Internet. He is the author of a dozen books, including On Culture in America (Gallimard, 2006), the best-seller Mainstream : On the Global War on Culture and Medias (Flammarion, 2010, translated in twenty countries) and Smart, on the internets (Stock, 2014).

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