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

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). There was no-one else around, but it was not quiet. They…

Whilst there are ever-increasing oppor­tun­it­ies to explore work in the new eco­nomy through altern­at­ive medi­ums, here in organ­iz­a­tion stud­ies (a dis­tinct­ive, though I hope wel­come, cousin of the soci­ology of work move­ment), we often equate sen­sual forms of know­ing with all things visual. Not to dis­miss this visual turn of course: it helps us to…