ABSTRACT
Two major aspects can be pinpointed behind the new internal and external flexibility's quantitative and qualitative performance dimensions - the individualism of producers and their over-involvement in the production process. Be they self-employed or subordinate wage-earners, part-time or permanent, workers become, in a way, the entrepreneurs of their labour power. Both work and conditions in the arts world, indeed, reveal in a clearer way than others, both the mutations taking place in the world of work and the new configurations of the 'social movement'. The sedimentation of social relations and work is different in the United Kingdom and in France but some comparative data on flexibility, subjectivity and collective expression in the domain of artisic work are nevertheless revealing. From a global point of view, the growth of cultural occupations is very important and particularly in the form of temporary and precarious work for both technicians and artists.
