The cultural industries are an area of continued international debate. This edited volume brings together original contributions to examine the experiences and realities of working within a number of creative sectors and address how higher education can both enable students to pursue and critically examine work in the cultural industries.

Kim Allen, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKDaniel Ashton, Bath Spa University, UKRichard Berger, Bournemouth University, UKDavid Lee, University of Leeds, UKKaren Littleton, Open University, UKSusan Luckman, University of South Australia, Australia Annette Naudin, University of Warwick, UKCaitriona Noonan, University of Glamorgan, UKKate Oakley, University of Leeds, UKEmma Pollard, Institute for Employment Studies, UKAnamik Saha, University of Leeds, UKStephanie Taylor, Open University, UK Jonathan Wardle, National Film and Television School, UKMarketa Zezulkova, Bournemouth University, UK

List of Contents Introduction: Cultural Work and Higher Education; Daniel Ashton and Caitriona Noonan PART I: THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL WORK 1. Making Workers: Higher Education and the Cultural Industries Workplace; Kate Oakley 2. Making Your Way: Empirical Evidence from a Survey of 3,500 Graduates; Emma Pollard PART II: CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE CURRICULUM 3. Precariously Mobile: Tensions Between the Local and the Global in Higher Education Approaches to Cultural Work; Susan Luckman 4. No Longer Just Making the Tea: Media Work-Placements and Work-Based Learning in Higher Education; Richard Berger, Jon Wardle, and Marketa Zezulkova 5. Media Enterprise in Higher Education: A Laboratory for Learning; Annette Naudin PART III: IDENTITIES AND TRANSITIONS 6. Smashing Childlike Wonder? The Early Journey into Higher Education; Caitriona Noonan 7. Negotiating a Contemporary Creative Identity; Stephanie Taylor and Karen Littleton 8. Industry Professionals in Higher Education: Values, Identities and Cultural Work; Daniel Ashton PART IV: THE POLITICS OF ACCESS 9. Creative Networks and Social Capital; David Lee 10. The Cultural Industries in a Critical Multicultural Pedagogy; Anamik Saha 11. 'What do you need to make it as a woman in this industry? Balls!': Work Placements, Gender and the Cultural Industries; Kim Allen Afterword: Further and Future Directions for Cultural Work and Higher Education; Daniel Ashton and Caitriona Noonan