Part three of From Economy to Ecology: A Policy Framework for Creative Labour, which is a comprehensive examination of the concept of the creative economy and more particularly of how the current labour policy framework should adapt to the realities creative professionals.

The report examines the Canadian approach to the status of the artist question and offers some new thinking about how best to deal with the unique characteristics of workers in the creative economy.

According to the report, 'the limited dissemination in Canada and around the world of such special legislation contrasts with UNESCO’s creation in 2003 of a World Observatory on the Condition of the Artist to promote greater international mobilization. Slow take up of the UNESCO [instrument], and partial regional diffusion suggest deep underlying conceptual problems in application of a specialized status of the artist approach, or in using it as a base from which to generalize security for cultural /knowledge workers. The problem with the regime is that it is partial and schizophrenic.’

Part three is available via the external link below. The full document is available here.

http://www.ccarts.ca/en/advocacy/publications/policy/documents/PART_THREE.pdf