{"author":[{"last_name":"Sandoval","first_name":"Marisol","id":"110918","full_name":"Sandoval, Marisol"}],"intvolume":" 21","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2024-10-07T15:56:45Z","year":"2017","type":"journal_article","doi":"10.1177/1367549417719011","volume":21,"date_created":"2024-10-07T12:22:20Z","publisher":"SAGE Publications","publication":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","citation":{"mla":"Sandoval, Marisol. “From Passionate Labour to Compassionate Work: Cultural Co-Ops, Do What You Love and Social Change.” European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, SAGE Publications, 2017, pp. 113–29, doi:10.1177/1367549417719011.","bibtex":"@article{Sandoval_2017, title={From passionate labour to compassionate work: Cultural co-ops, do what you love and social change}, volume={21}, DOI={10.1177/1367549417719011}, number={2}, journal={European Journal of Cultural Studies}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Sandoval, Marisol}, year={2017}, pages={113–129} }","chicago":"Sandoval, Marisol. “From Passionate Labour to Compassionate Work: Cultural Co-Ops, Do What You Love and Social Change.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 21, no. 2 (2017): 113–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417719011.","ama":"Sandoval M. From passionate labour to compassionate work: Cultural co-ops, do what you love and social change. European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2017;21(2):113-129. doi:10.1177/1367549417719011","ieee":"M. Sandoval, “From passionate labour to compassionate work: Cultural co-ops, do what you love and social change,” European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 113–129, 2017, doi: 10.1177/1367549417719011.","apa":"Sandoval, M. (2017). From passionate labour to compassionate work: Cultural co-ops, do what you love and social change. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21(2), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417719011","short":"M. Sandoval, European Journal of Cultural Studies 21 (2017) 113–129."},"publication_status":"published","publication_identifier":{"issn":["1367-5494","1460-3551"]},"status":"public","page":"113-129","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":" This article focuses on the relation between work and pleasure in the cultural sector. I first unpack the concept of passionate work, situating it within four possible ways of relating work and pleasure. I argue that the work ethic of do what you love, contrary to what it promises, limits the prospects of loveable work. As part of a neoliberal work culture, do what you love transfers the battleground from society onto the self. It favours self-management over politics. Drawing on findings from interview research with members of worker co-operatives in the UK cultural industries, I then go on to explore the relation between work and pleasure within cultural co-ops. I discuss how cultural co-ops might inspire and contribute to a movement for transforming the future of work by turning the desire for loveable work from a matter of individual transformation and competition into a practice of co-operation and social change. "}],"issue":"2","_id":"56368","user_id":"110918","title":"From passionate labour to compassionate work: Cultural co-ops, do what you love and social change"}