ABSTRACT
As the problems of cultural labour markets become more apparent, an appropriate political response seems elusive. Should public policy, as it does in the UK, continue to concentrate on issues of access to the labour market (via apprenticeships, regulated internships and so on), without concerning itself about working conditions within the cultural industries? Can workers’ organizations, either those based on precarity 1 or established trade unions, reverse the tide of disorganized capitalism in these sectors? Who represents cultural industry workers in these debates?
