Doing, Having, and Getting Work: Acting as Creative Labour

In what ways does acting represent a form of work? From one perspective, the work is taken to mean exercising artistic and creative craft: techniques, actions, procedures involved with portraying character. Yet also means employment, state being ‘in work’ for pay. Once we begin think about as job, however, must acknowledge how endemic job insecurity routinely sees actors regularly experiencing unemployment, so working get work. A holistic account acting-as-work therefore appreciate distinctive characteristics doing while recognizing cultural industries shape conditions having that work, creating consequent demands on getting By presenting this tripartite model, article proposes few pointers towards thinking labour.