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Herding Cats: Co-work, Creativity and Precarity in Inner Sydney

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The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report (2016) observed that ‘[t]elecommuting, co-working spaces, virtual teams, freelancing and online talent platforms are all on the rise, transcending the physical boundaries of the office or factory floor and redefining the boundary between one’s job and private life in the process’ and that these developments are being accompanied by new forms of workers’ representation and new industrial regulatory regimes. The principal challenge for governments, workers and employers is to ensure that the changing nature of work benefits everyone’.

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Notes

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    Kommonz, The Sandpit, JoJo and Obscura are pseudonyms.

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    The Design Industry of Australia president Oliver Kratzer stated that: Everybody loves to study design and all the universities supply a multitude of design degree courses but with little correlation to actual demand (Lacey 2013).

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    There is, of course, a connection between the two. As dwellings become smaller and more crowded—a process that occurs more quickly in cities where there is little social and affordable housing—so it becomes more difficult to make space for working at home.

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  1. Institute for Culture and Society and School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

    George Morgan

  2. Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

    James Woodriff

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  3. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Tarek E. Virani

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Morgan, G., Woodriff, J. (2019). Herding Cats: Co-work, Creativity and Precarity in Inner Sydney. In: Gill, R., Pratt, A.C., Virani, T.E. (eds) Creative Hubs in Question. Dynamics of Virtual Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10653-9_2

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