http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/494 is a sociological space about work, generating discussion and exchange on what work, paid or unpaid, is like in today’s world Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:40:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/494/comment-page-1#comment-80 Branded Workers : No Way To Make A Living Tue, 04 May 2010 15:12:23 +0000 http://nowaytomakealiving.net/?p=494#comment-80 [...] Some people might quite like being the brand. Mike Allen, author of Wash­ing­ton insider deal­ing, agenda set­ting  gos­sip sheet Play­book exem­pli­fies a man who seems to delight in being reduced to a brand; cagey about his his­tory and appar­ently liv­ing without a private life, Allen is always on and always mak­ing news. It’s an alarm­ing vis­ion for other journ­al­ists if this is what they are to aspire to: not sleep­ing, being in touch, at work all the time. Work becomes all-consuming. [...] […] Some people might quite like being the brand. Mike Allen, author of Wash­ing­ton insider deal­ing, agenda set­ting  gos­sip sheet Play­book exem­pli­fies a man who seems to delight in being reduced to a brand; cagey about his his­tory and appar­ently liv­ing without a private life, Allen is always on and always mak­ing news. It’s an alarm­ing vis­ion for other journ­al­ists if this is what they are to aspire to: not sleep­ing, being in touch, at work all the time. Work becomes all-consuming. […]

]]> http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/494/comment-page-1#comment-47 Noticing Work Spaces: Sound Without Vision : No Way To Make A Living Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:41:39 +0000 http://nowaytomakealiving.net/?p=494#comment-47 [...] I got lost last week­end, end­ing up at Tolles­bury Mar­ina. I was think­ing about Kat Riach’s piece on sound, as I walked around (it’s not that I’m a work­aholic, but a deeply incul­cated soci­olo­gical ima­gin­a­tion isn’t eas­ily switched off; it’s a gov­ernance of the soul). [...] […] I got lost last week­end, end­ing up at Tolles­bury Mar­ina. I was think­ing about Kat Riach’s piece on sound, as I walked around (it’s not that I’m a work­aholic, but a deeply incul­cated soci­olo­gical ima­gin­a­tion isn’t eas­ily switched off; it’s a gov­ernance of the soul). […]

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