Inclusive solidarity: emerging forms of resistance within the UK creative economy

This chapter examines the experiences of a series of issue-based grassroots organisations/collectives, comprised of creative and cultural workers who have mobilised in direct response to the precarious labour and work-based inequality operating within the British creative economy. Their collective mobilisation challenges previously understood models of creative workers as docile subjects of neoliberalism. Exploring a concept of "inclusive solidarity" the chapter explores how these organisations offer a "practice of hope" (Gross 2019) in relation to solidarity communities that recognise the multiple, interconnected forms of workplace exclusion and injustice. However, the chapter acknowledges that many of these groups are operating on voluntary basis with limited access to funding. Their own precarious and under-valued position within their respective sectors presents potential challenges for their sustainability and the visibility of the issues that they are working to change.