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

For years soci­olo­gists have been telling us that iden­tit­ies in late mod­ern­ity are fluid, not fixed, and that they’re based in our con­sumer life­styles not our work (Ran­some, 2005). Bau­man (1995) says that what marks out the poor is not the absence of paid work but their fail­ure to con­sume (or to con­sume in the…

Well, let’s sup­port the small busi­ness, not these giants of cor­por­ate cap­it­al­ism which have spread like bind­weed and trans­formed the myth­ical high-street into identikit Any­where Road. So yeah, let’s stick it to The Man and sup­port the small retailer. She’s got an idio­syn­cratic col­lec­tion of stock, she’s put her have-a-go heart and soul into the…