This community study describes life in a close-knit community. The authors address the relationship between the working environment and family and leisure roles.

By linking lifestyle studies with creative industries research, this article opens a new perspective on creativity and innovation management. We argue that artists in the creative industries have to bridge the gap between artistic work and the economic need for self-management, and that a bohemian lifestyle essentially supports them in doing so. The bohemian lifestyle, which is characterized by a devotion to art for art’s sake, is an essential source for work motivation of artists and an increasing number of other creative workers. The article draws upon an empirical study into artistic work and employment in German theatres. Enacting a bohemian lifestyle enables actors as ‘bohemian entrepreneurs’ to integrate intensive selfmanagement and self-marketing as well as subordination of private life to work into their artistic work life. Analysing the link between lifestyle and creative work is crucial for understanding the way in which creative workers become artists and, at the same time, entrepreneurs of their creative talent.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/caim_392.pdf?abstractid=925458&mirid=5

Coal is our life : an analysis of a Yorkshire mining community

Lifestyle meets market: Bohemian entrepreneurs in creative industries

Social Capital and Economic Development in Regional Australia: A Case Study.

This article contends that class politics has receded in advanced capitalist societies during the last century, while cultural politics has increased, and it focuses on social and political institutions, rather than on occupational structure, to explain the shift. Participation in solidary groups has consequences for the social bases of politics, and the political salience of such groups is affected by social institutions that are independent of occupational structure. The first such institution is direct rule. Whereas indirect rule tends to promote class politics, direct rule favors cultural politics. Rapid expansion of direct rule since the 1960s has muted class politics and increased cultural politics. This relationship is not deterministic, however; other institutions can mitigate the effects of direct rule on the social bases of politics.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/421357

From class to culture

https://psycnet.apa.org/journals/apl/63/4/513.pdf

Relationship of work to nonwork.

Whether social class shapes identification (senses of belonging to specified social groups) is subject to much debate. This article examines the boundaries of identification described by three groups living in a Southern English new town. The three groups systematically differed in their volumes of economic, cultural and social resources, and patterns of geographical mobility. Members identified themselves as belonging within each group through interpretations of shared social practices and orientations toward everyday life. Boundaries drawn between `Us' and `Them' by all three groups were based on generic social categorizations of class and expressed through socio-economic, cultural and moral frameworks of status evaluation. However, identifications were asymmetrical because two groups, the closest in terms of resource volumes, differentiated from one another despite employing the same frameworks for evaluating status. Internal differences were also apparent in the third group; those who had lived in the...

Coal is our life : an analysis of a Yorkshire mining community

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Lifestyle meets market: Bohemian entrepreneurs in creative industries

Social Capital and Economic Development in Regional Australia: A Case Study.

From class to culture

Relationship of work to nonwork.

Boundaries of `Us' and `Them': class, mobility and identification in a new town

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