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

Trav­el­ling in the last car­riage on a south­bound North­ern Line train between East Finch­ley and Cam­den Town before the year 2000, the obser­v­ant pas­sen­ger might have noticed the Guard sip­ping tea from an enamel cup. Nowadays the guard is all but for­got­ten and those of you who have trav­elled on the Dock­lands Light Rail­way can…

It is 1973 and I am stand­ing in Ilford Sta­tion on a Sunday after­noon where the track used to be. I’m work­ing as a navvy and accord­ing to my payslip I am a plate-layer. We’ve been here nearly twelve hours already and the job is nowhere near fin­ished — we need to get the new…