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

Dave Harris is Professor of Leisure and Education at UCP Marjon (Plymouth). He is a sociologist, and his interests are described in his title.

Dawn Lyon is Lec­turer in soci­ology at the School of Social Policy, Soci­ology and Social Research, Uni­ver­sity of Kent. She stud­ies fish­mon­gers, build­ing work, migra­tion and career nar­rat­ives.

Fiona Venn is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Essex. She studies Roosevelt’s New Deal, international history and oil diplomacy.

Hilda Jauregui studies Ma in Sociology and Management at the University of Essex. She is an MBA graduate with experience in Marketing and Sales, mainly in the pharmaceutical industry.

John Budd is Professor of Work and Organizations and Director of the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (USA). He studies work, labor unions, and work-related public policies.

Kat Riach is Lecturer at Essex Business School. She studies age inequality and ageing identities at work, and sensory methodologies.

Keith Hargreaves is a former transport manager, actor and writer amongst other things who now works in education as a teacher, librarian and Housemaster. He has worked in the UK, Europe and Australia and knows how to make a good cup of tea

Lara Maestripieri began studying sociology in 2001 at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. She specializes in narrative methods, and started her PhD project “The liminal condition of consultancy. Stories of work between organizations and self-employment” in 2007 at the Università degli Studi di Trento.

Born in Brazil in 1982, Luciano Spinelli is a PhD student in Sociology and Visual Communication at the Université de Paris 5 - Descartes Sorbonne. His work concentrates on graffiti, life in interstitial zones and the details of postmodern society. His phototographic work has been shown in both individual and group exhibitions and has also been published in magazines. He is a researcher at CEAQ (Centre d'Etude sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien) and is a member of On Walls, a graffiti research group.

Lynne Pet­tinger is Lec­turer in soci­ology at the Uni­ver­sity of Essex. She stud­ies musi­cians, customers of prostitutes, cus­tomer ser­vice work and green collar work.

Mark Harvey is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI) at the University of Essex. His current research addresses capitalist political economies faced with global climate change, peak oil, growing food demand, and sustainable consumption.

Mick Hutton is a former navvy and tube-train driver, and now works as a musician and plumber.

Miriam Glucks­mann is Pro­fessor in soci­ology at the Uni­ver­sity of Essex. She stud­ies food work, fact­ory work and con­sump­tion work.

Rebecca Taylor is a Research Fellow at the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) at the University of Birmingham. She studies the Third Sector policy context, the experiences and orientations of workers in different sectors and conceptualisations of work, particularly unpaid work.

Scott Taylor is Senior Lecturer at University of Exeter Business School. He studies religion and spirituality at work.

Sean Nixon is Senior Lecturer and Director MA Media Culture Society in the Department of Sociology, University of Essex.

Tim Strangleman in Reader in sociology at the School of Social Policy, Soci­ology and Social Research, Uni­ver­sity of Kent. He studies work identity, deindustrialisation, corporate photography, and nostalgia, in particular in the former Guinness brewery at Park Royal, west London.

Toby Peecock is a piano tuner and a member of the Colchester-based creative writing group, Ellipsis.

Tracey Warren is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. She studies the sociologies of work and employment, and of social inequalities. These include time and work in Europe; economic well-being: income, wealth and financial security; gender, class and ethnicity; and work-life reconciliation.

Valentina Cuzzocrea is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. She is interested in youth, work and how to study the relations between the two, with a special focus on transitions to adulthood. She feels inspired by a variety of qualitative methods. Email: cuzzocrea@unica.it. Annalisa Murgia is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, Italy, where she is member of the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics and of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Her research interests include work trajectories, with special regard to workers with atypical and precarious jobs, and the social construction of gender in professional careers.

Victoria Tedder is a PhD student in sociology at the School of Social Policy, Soci­ology and Social Research, Uni­ver­sity of Kent.