Fewer than One in 10 Arts Workers in UK Have Working-Class Roots

Writer Rachael Healy describes the recent findings from Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre’s quarterly Labour Force Survey, which illustrate an arts and culture workforce lacking in diversity. Healy details that working-class people are underrepresented in all areas of arts and culture, while also providing information on which regions have more people working in the arts and perspectives on possible causes for this disparity, such as fair wages.