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


January 11, 2012 The Art and Craft of Approaching your Head of Department to Submit A Request For A Raise Lynne Pettinger

Tags dignity, emotion, fiction, Georges Perec, office, pay, spaces of work, technology

Categories: Thoughts

October 16, 2011 Water Works, or What I Did on my Holidays (part 1) Lynne Pettinger

Tags economic geography, fishing, object, rural, spaces of work, technology

Categories: Thoughts

September 24, 2010 The Mental/Manual Divide Lynne Pettinger

Tags body, craft, manual labour, objects and materials, technology

Categories: Thoughts

August 10, 2010 The New Fordism Lynne Pettinger

Tags manufacturing, production, robot, routine, technology

Categories: Thoughts

July 6, 2010 Sex at the Job Centre Lynne Pettinger

Tags consumption, photography, sex, sex work, technology

Categories: Thoughts

May 26, 2010 In the Orbit of the Tomato Mark Harvey

Tags 1930s, film, food, production, realism, technology, transport

Categories: Thoughts

October 13, 2009 The Letter and the Parcel and the Eternity of the Postman’s Job Lynne Pettinger

Tags customer service, technology, transport

Categories: Thoughts

September 10, 2009 Who is Responsible for the Photocopier? Lynne Pettinger

Tags gender, skill, technology

Categories: Thoughts

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