What is the difference between the worker and the artist under capitalism? Historically, the two can be distinguished by object of their labor: the artist works for the sake of work itself, a disinterested labor whose autonomy gives rise to creativity and self-expression, whereas the worker, compelled by the necessity, works for a wage whose function is merely to sustain and thus reproduce the worker’s life.
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Literature and Labor under Neoliberalism
By Walter Oliver Baker
Sarah Brouillette. Literature and the Creative Economy. Stanford University Press, 2014. 238 pp.