@inbook{9c5334581cac41149caa83bfeef1c41b,
title = "Rhythms of Creativity and Power in Freelance Creative Work",
abstract = "Freelancers work for companies, but also apart from them - at home, on site, or in shared workspaces. This chapter examines how clients and freelancers manage and organise the employment relationship at a distance. Utilising interview data with freelancers working in the Dutch creative industries, Henri Lefebvre{\textquoteright}s method of {\textquoteleft}rhythmanalysis{\textquoteright}, Nitzan and Bichler{\textquoteright}s theory of {\textquoteleft}capital as power{\textquoteright}, and John Holloway{\textquoteright}s understanding of human creativity as {\textquoteleft}doing{\textquoteright}, the chapter examines the conflicting rhythms of freelance creative work. It shows that freelancers remain subject to traditional workplace-oriented structures of control, particularly in creative agencies. Freelancers{\textquoteright} use of time must correspond to client processes of measurement and valuation. Different client relationships, and the proximity they imply, produce different rhythms of work.",
keywords = "Work, Labour, Creative Industries, Creative labour, Sociology of Work, critical management studies, organization, organization and management, Capital as Power, Lefebvre, rhythmanalysis, freelance work, Self-employment, labour process",
author = "Frederick Pitts",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
day = "5",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-137-47919-8",
series = "Dynamics of Virtual Work",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "139--159",
editor = "Juliet Webster and Keith Randle",
booktitle = "Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market",
address = "UK United Kingdom",
}