ABSTRACT
Employment growth within creative industries and institutions represents an important measure of the developmental significance of the cultural economy. The evolution of the cultural economy labour force exhibits salient features in terms of established dimensions of employment analysis. This chapter discusses where the cultural workforce fits in the structures and systems of urban labour markets. The discussion includes perspectives on where cultural workers fit within concepts of post-industrialism and post-fordism. The chapter offers an outline of the dimensions of the cultural economy workforce, in terms of three basic categories: the social, technical and spatial divisions of labour. The cultural economy workforce includes a large contingent of new media workers who combine creative talents with technological savvy. A crucial contextual aspect of the rise of a cultural workforce over the last quarter century concerns the dramatic expansion of the urban service sector.
