Creative Work – Conditions, Contexts and Practices features case studies from a European context, where experiences and practices from creative workers shows how they are attempting to navigate a changing environment which affects spaces, identities, and professional roles. The book provides an opportunity to expand the conception of what creative work is with the help from studies of a range of activities, practices and sectors that are usually included in the cultural and creative industries as well as ones that are more untraditional.

– One of the foundational ideas of this volume is to explore the fuzzy domain of work in the specific context of creative work. We will shed light on the notion of creative work as unconstrained to a particular industry, market, or public sector. The ambiguity embedded in the concept of creative work serves as both background and subject of this volume. The various chapters set out to explore and analyze conditions, contexts, and practices of creative work, ranging from arts and literature to fashion, the digital games industry, ecological entrepreneurship, and wellbeing, says Erika Andersson Cederholm who has edited the book together with Katja Lindqvist from the Department of Service Studies, Ida de Wit Sandström (Lund University) and Philip Warkander (University of Borås).