Culture is bad for you

<p><b>The revised and updated edition of this popular title shines a light on the precarious situation of art workers today.</b><br><br>Culture keeps you fit and healthy. Culture brings communities together. Culture improves your education. This is the message endlessly repeated by the government and arts organisations. But as this ground-breaking book explains we need to be cautious about culture.<br><br> <i>Culture is bad for you</i> presents an unflinching portrait of the cultural landscape in the UK today. It reveals how women people of colour and those from working-class backgrounds are systematically excluded despite the claims of cultural institutions and businesses. Updated to provide a report on the situation after COVID this edition reveals that despite grand promises from those at the top exclusion and precarity remain the norm.<br><br> While inequalities of workforce and audience remain unaddressed the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised. This book offers a powerful call to transform cultural and creative industries.</p>