Harvey, Sarah    <br/><br/>
Michael L. Siciliano. creative control: The ambivalence of work in the culture industries 

 - Administrative Science Quarterly  
 - 69(2), Jun, 2024: p.NP28-NP30 
<br/><br/> In Creative Control, sociologist Michael L. Siciliano shakes the roots of our understanding of labor in creative and cultural industries as undertaken freely by creative workers to quell a deep intrinsic drive and, correspondingly, as relatively immune from managerial or organizational control. He argues that capital controls workers in these sectors by governing the means through which they become aesthetically engaged in creative work. That is, capital governs the material form of work, technology in particular, which captivates workers, acting as the source of their interest in and excitement for their work. Because organizations control technology and other material aspects of work, they control workers’ experience and enjoyment of work. Correspondingly, workers can become both engaged in and alienated from their tasks, depending on their access to this aesthetic dimension. Siciliano develops these ideas through a careful, in-depth ethnographic study of two creative organizations, a music recording studio with the pseudonym SoniCo and a YouTube production company with the pseudonym The Future, producing grounded theory about how capital exerts control over creative labor.- Reproduced<br/><br/>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00018392231224789<br/>