COVID-19, inclusion and workforce diversity in the cultural economy: What now, what next?

Eikhof, D. R. (2020) COVID-19, inclusion and workforce diversity in the cultural economy: What now, what next? Cultural Trends, 29(3), pp. 234-250. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2020.1802202)

Abstract

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cultural economy poses a significant threat to inclusion and workforce diversity. This article combines pre-COVID-19 research with emerging industry and policy evidence to identify where key impacts on inclusive practice and, consequently, workforce participation and advancement in the cultural economy are likely to occur. The article demonstrates how considering the cultural economy’s typical business models and resultant work and employment practices allows understanding that the inclusion and diversity impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic will be driven by more than workers’ differing abilities to buffer short-term income insecurity. The article highlights four areas relevant to inclusion and workforce diversity that research and policy responses to COVID-19 should attend to in revising existing and designing new responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Eikhof, Professor Doris Ruth
• Authors: Eikhof, D. R.
• College/School: College of Arts > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies
• Journal Name: Cultural Trends
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISSN: 0954-8963
• ISSN (Online): 1469-3690
• Published Online: 04 August 2020
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group
• First Published: First published in Cultural Trends 29(3):234-250
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy