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


December 6, 2010 A Long Night and an Early Start: ‘La piccola pesca’ of Cagliari Dawn Lyon

Tags ethnography, fishing, image of worker, night, time

Categories: Projects

October 29, 2010 Thirty Years on from ‘Women on the Line’: Researching Gender and Work, Panel Report from Work, Employment and Society Conference, Brighton, September 2010 Dawn Lyon

Tags body, ethnography, gender, manual labour

Categories: Reviews

October 22, 2010 More Small Encounters Lynne Pettinger

Tags customer service, ethnography

Categories: Thoughts

October 5, 2010 The Sound of the Sell: San Benedetto Fish Market, Cagliari Dawn Lyon

Tags consumption, customer service, ethnography, fish, image of worker, market, sound

Categories: Projects

January 25, 2010 A short exchange with Miriam Glucksmann about ‘Women on the Line’ Miriam Glucksmann

Tags body, ethnicity, ethnography, gender, image of worker, manual labour, production, strike

Categories: Projects

December 22, 2009 A Day’s Work at Billingsgate Fish Market Dawn Lyon

Tags body, customer service, ethnography, food, market, speed

Categories: Projects, Stories

September 3, 2009 Seeing Work: Time, Space and Labour on a Building Site Dawn Lyon

Tags art, body, building work, ethnography, image of worker

Categories: Projects

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