Carrot Workers Collective: Surviving Internships: A Counter Guide to Free Labour in the Arts (2011)

“This guide has been produced by the Carrot Workers‘ Collective in London. It attempts to explore and debunk some commonly held myths around creative careers and provide some survival tools for those currently working in the creative sector. This guide asks: is unpaid interning essential for a job in the creative sector? Does interning and free labour automatically lead to paid work? Do those who work in the creative industry actually do creative work? Why do we often think that cultural work isn‘t ‘real work‘, and therefore that cultural workers don‘t deserve the same rights as everyone else? The contents of the guide are based on real life experiences of cultural workers in London who tell it like it really is, sharing the fears and desires that motivate their work, their experiences of disappointment and survival, and also, importantly, suggesting how we could organise our work otherwise.” (from the introduction)

Creative Commons BY 3.0 Unported License
68 pages

interview with the authors (January 2012)

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