Labour Policy and Ideology in East Asian Creative Industries

<p>This book addresses some of the questions that have been brought to light by the varied experiences of culture industry workers and consumer publics across East Asia over the past decade.</p><p>For over twenty years the creative industries have been seen as the engine driving global economic transformation as a way out of the dilemmas of de-industrialization and as key to the projection of national soft power. The chapters in this book cover the former ‘Tiger Economies’ of South Korea Taiwan and Singapore as well as Japan and China and focus on a number of different industries – cinema television graphic design fashion and literature. The authors include sociologists anthropologists and cultural studies scholars who approach the topics of creative work government policy and entrepreneurial strategy from a variety of perspectives. The chapters examine the varied political economic and social structures that influence the development of creative industries within the region and reveal how the careers of creative industry workers in different cities and different industries can vary. They also show how the development of the creative industries can affect many aspects of society including city planning policing democratic politics and ethnic and national identities.</p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Culture Theory and Critique</i>.</p>