No Way To Make A Living is a sociological space about work, generating discussion and exchange on what work, paid or unpaid, is like in today’s world

no way to make a liv­ing is a soci­olo­gical space about work, gen­er­at­ing dis­cus­sion and exchange on what work, paid or unpaid, is like in today’s world.

We present brief thoughts on the small mat­ters of every­day work­ing lives, and we show­case excit­ing research pro­jects on work. There’s a place for stor­ies about work — (auto)biographical or fic­tional, and we have an always-increasing num­ber of use­ful links to other resources.

We star­ted this because of lim­it­a­tions in the forms of know­ledge we can con­vey in books and journal art­icles; in other words, the con­tem­por­ary com­plex­ity of work exceeds the dom­in­ant forms of soci­olo­gical rep­res­ent­a­tion avail­able to us. The web­site allows us to post images and sounds, and dif­fer­ent kinds of text, from the ana­lyt­ical to the fic­tional. It per­mits quick­fire exchanges of ideas about cur­rent events and works in progress.

And it’s not just for aca­dem­ics. We get lots of soci­olo­gical inspir­a­tion from the work of artists and pho­to­graph­ers, journ­al­ists and com­ment­at­ors, from films, songs and TV pro­grammes, as well as people going about their every­day routines. So this is a site that is open to every­one, whatever way you mak­ing a living.

pho­to­graphy by Hersh Mann