From Precarious Labor to Precarious Economy? Planning for Precarity in Singapore's Creative Economy

The important place of the oftentimes "hidden" independent worker, or freelancer, has been acknowledged in developed countries where the creative economy has grown. These creative workers do not belong to the traditional employment set-up organized around firms. Instead, they move from por...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-30432020-04-06T08:51:46Z From Precarious Labor to Precarious Economy? Planning for Precarity in Singapore's Creative Economy Kong, Lily The important place of the oftentimes "hidden" independent worker, or freelancer, has been acknowledged in developed countries where the creative economy has grown. These creative workers do not belong to the traditional employment set-up organized around firms. Instead, they move from portfolio to portfolio, assignment to assignment, interspersing corporation-based jobs with periods of self employment. Their work offers freedom, independence and creative space, but has also been characterized as precarious, because the securities of old working patterns no longer hold. While governments in many countries and cities have become attracted to the potential of the creative economy, those that have a strong tradition of economic planning, such as Singapore, will also have to come to grips with a new creative economy in which there exists a great deal more amorphousness and a hidden ecology. In this paper, I examine how the growth of "precarious labor" entails three shifts that the Singapore government is attempting to make in the face of a more "precarious economy": new methods in mapping and measurement, new directions in education and training, and new experiments in labor organization and management. 2011-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1786 info:doi/10.1016/j.ccs.2011.05.002 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3043/viewcontent/PrecariousLaborEconomy_2011.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Creative economy Economic planning Education Freelancers Labor organization Singapore Asian Studies Human Geography Urban Studies
institution Singapore Management University
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Singapore
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topic Creative economy
Economic planning
Education
Freelancers
Labor organization
Singapore
Asian Studies
Human Geography
Urban Studies
spellingShingle Creative economy
Economic planning
Education
Freelancers
Labor organization
Singapore
Asian Studies
Human Geography
Urban Studies
Kong, Lily
From Precarious Labor to Precarious Economy? Planning for Precarity in Singapore's Creative Economy
description The important place of the oftentimes "hidden" independent worker, or freelancer, has been acknowledged in developed countries where the creative economy has grown. These creative workers do not belong to the traditional employment set-up organized around firms. Instead, they move from portfolio to portfolio, assignment to assignment, interspersing corporation-based jobs with periods of self employment. Their work offers freedom, independence and creative space, but has also been characterized as precarious, because the securities of old working patterns no longer hold. While governments in many countries and cities have become attracted to the potential of the creative economy, those that have a strong tradition of economic planning, such as Singapore, will also have to come to grips with a new creative economy in which there exists a great deal more amorphousness and a hidden ecology. In this paper, I examine how the growth of "precarious labor" entails three shifts that the Singapore government is attempting to make in the face of a more "precarious economy": new methods in mapping and measurement, new directions in education and training, and new experiments in labor organization and management.
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title From Precarious Labor to Precarious Economy? Planning for Precarity in Singapore's Creative Economy
title_short From Precarious Labor to Precarious Economy? Planning for Precarity in Singapore's Creative Economy
title_full From Precarious Labor to Precarious Economy? Planning for Precarity in Singapore's Creative Economy
title_fullStr From Precarious Labor to Precarious Economy? Planning for Precarity in Singapore's Creative Economy
title_full_unstemmed From Precarious Labor to Precarious Economy? Planning for Precarity in Singapore's Creative Economy
title_sort from precarious labor to precarious economy? planning for precarity in singapore's creative economy
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2011
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1786
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3043/viewcontent/PrecariousLaborEconomy_2011.pdf
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