Richard Florida's The Rise Of The Creative Class

In “The Creative Class” from the Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (2004), Richard Florida who is the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, gave the reader the idea about new socio-economic class which create ideas and alteration rather than products and is the driving force. In this article, Florida also mentioned about two main layers of creative class including Super-Creative Class and Creative Professionals. This two main layers are the pieces in his main famous work The Rise of The Creative Class. Besides that, he also let us know that he did not classified this two classes to represent “the ownership of property, capital or the means of production.” Florida emphasized that none members in …show more content…
To some degree, many functions with the tastes and values of Creative Class are adopted by members of Service Class. As Florida’s thinking, calibrating and quantifying the magnitude of the change at hand are important. For example, with this changing, it is easy to figure out that Working class has the larger number of people which including 10 million people compared to 2.9 million people Creative Class and 4.8 million people Service Class combined. However, Working Class was not the largest class at this time; it was agricultural workers composed 40 percentage of workforce. Although with this percentage, agricultural can considered as the largest class, these numbers declined to just very small percentage today. Another reason why Florida think this change is important because of the difference changing between Creative Class and Service Class. While the percentage in Creative Class had grown slightly, percentage in Service Class had grown considerably. However, the changing in American class structure happened time by time which present more general process of economic and social change. Powerful and significant shifts in values, norm and attitudes is presented the rise of the