Everyone’s an artist?

This article examines the endurance of traditional class labels among precarious workers in post-recession Dublin. It argues that tensions remain between creatives and non-creatives due to: (1) divergent concepts, (2) a lack social engagement, (3) unequal access to economic, social, cultural capital, which mobilize protect some highly vocational artistic labor. is thus not shared experience same kind exploitation unites precariat but trap held common, whereby self-actualization through labor construed as route freedom. Drawing on Karl Marx’s theory emancipation, I suggest attempts redress precarization should focus undermining this encroachment work into life, argue results alienation for all workers.