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

• Main Author: Kong, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Creative economy; Economic planning; Education; Freelancers; Labor organization; Singapore; Asian Studies; Human Geography; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1786; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3043/viewcontent/PrecariousLaborEconomy_2011.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...