‘Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets
‘Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets
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10.1177/0042098018782374
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发表时间：
2018-09
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4.7
通讯作者：
Janet Merkel
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作者：
Janet Merkel
十多年来，联合办公空间在世界各地的城市蓬勃发展。本文讨论了联合办公作为一种重要的城市实践，因为这些空间为文化和创意产业中越来越多的自由职业者提供了支持。自由职业者是一种“看不见的”劳动力，其影响往往是“隐藏的”（mold等人，2014），他们没有得到社会福利法规的充分保护，也没有享受与受雇工人相同的社会权利。本文使用非正式的概念来强调正在进行的就业关系的非正式化过程，以及创造性劳动力市场中的非正式工作实践。它讨论了共同工作作为集体自助和自我组织的实践的出现，以应对并潜在地克服与独立工作相关的非正式性、不确定性和风险。它认为，由于缺乏负担得起的住房，社会福利国家的紧缩以及“紧缩城市主义”的强加条件，在欧洲和北美城市中，由于缺乏负担得起的住房，共同工作可以与非正式城市主义的其他实践相一致（Peck, 2012）。
For more than a decade, co-working spaces have proliferated in cities worldwide. The paper discusses co-working as a critical urban practice because these spaces give support to the rising number of freelance workers in culture and creative industries. Freelance workers are an ‘invisible’ workforce whose impact often remains ‘hidden’ (Mould et al., 2014), who are not sufficiently protected through social welfare regulations and do not enjoy the same social entitlements as employed workers. This paper uses the concept of informality to highlight ongoing informalisation processes of employment relationships as well as informal working practices in creative labour markets. It discusses the emergence of co-working as a practice of collective self-help and self-organisation to cope with and to potentially overcome the informality, uncertainty and risks associated with independent work. It argues that co-working can be seen in line with other practices of informal urbanism that become more prevalent in European and North American cities because of the lack of affordable housing, the retrenchment of the social welfare state and the imposed conditions of ‘austerity urbanism’ (Peck, 2012).