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


February 16, 2012 Delivery Services Lynne Pettinger

Tags home work, knowledge, manual labour, objects and materials, precarious work, spaces of work

Categories: Thoughts

September 13, 2011 The Metaphor of the Octopus Worker John Budd

Tags care, conceptualising work, home work, objects and materials, work identity

Categories: Thoughts

April 7, 2010 Ordinary Misbehaviour Lynne Pettinger

Tags autobiography, body, home work, sex

Categories: Thoughts

April 5, 2010 Bed, Breakfast and Moral Regulation Lynne Pettinger

Tags consumption, customer service, home work, moral, small business, sociology not economics

Categories: Thoughts

December 4, 2009 Care Lynne Pettinger

Tags care, home work, nonwork, policy, unpaid work

Categories: Thoughts

October 27, 2009 When Home is Work Lynne Pettinger

Tags customer service, home work, sex work

Categories: Thoughts

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