1. Introduction: Approaching Creative and Cultural Work in EuropePart I: The Precarious Present of Creative and Cultural Work 2. Measuring Matters: Mapping Cultural and Creative Work in Europe 3. Creativity and the 'Work' of Art: Visual Artists' Perspectives 4. On the Heterogeneity of Creative Work: Exploring Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cultural Workers in the Balkans 5. Closing the Gap? Gender Differences in Norwegian Artists' Work and Income 6. Patterns in Artists' Careers: Adapting to Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Socio- Economic Constraints 7. "Oh My God, What Have I Done All Day?": Challenges of Measuring the Value of Creative WorkPart II: Challenges for Policy: Changing the Conditions of Creative and Cultural Work 8.

Barcelona Creation Factories: Improving the Support for Creative Work through an Innovative Cultural Policy 9. Welfare Policy as Cultural Policy in the UK: From Enterprise Allowance to Universal Credit 10. Building Creative Careers through Working Relations: The Case of the Norwegian Artist Assistant Scheme 11. From Precarity to Security? How Can Cultural Policies Tackle the Challenging Working Conditions of Creative Self- Employees in Europe? 12. The Trajectory of Film Work as Precarious Project Work: From Organization of Associated Labour, through Semi- Permanent Workgroups, to Gig Jobs 13. The Creative Middle Class: Between Neoliberalism and CommonismPart III: Contested Futures of Creative and Cultural Work 14. How to Move Things with Unions? Labour Organizing of Art Workers in the Post- Yugoslav Context 15. Creative Labour as Platform Work: Structural Inequalities and Digital Peripheries 16.

Universal Basic Income and the Future of (Creative) Work 17. Ecologically Sustainable Creative Work? Rethinking Cultural Policies and Practices of Creative Work in the Wake of Green Transition 18. Navigating Symbolic Boundaries: Migrants' Artistic Practices and the Struggle for Recognition 19. Conclusion: Supporting Creative and Cultural Work in Europe.