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


March 4, 2010 Careers Advice Lynne Pettinger

Tags career, choice, emotion, flexibility, graduate employment, training, work identity

Categories: Thoughts

November 25, 2009 A Job for Life Dawn Lyon

Tags craft, embodiment, image of worker, musical instruments, skill, sound, work identity

Categories: Thoughts

November 13, 2009 The Virtuous Journalist Lynne Pettinger

Tags media, speed, virtue, work identity

Categories: Thoughts

November 12, 2009 The Piano Tuner Toby Peecock

Tags autobiography, customer service, musical instruments, work identity

Categories: Stories

November 2, 2009 Being a Navvy Mick Hutton

Tags autobiography, manual labour, night, transport, work identity

Categories: Stories

October 1, 2009 work : place at the University of Essex Lynne Pettinger

Tags art, creativity, image of worker, work identity

Categories: Projects

The Fun is in Getting it Done! Bob the Builder as an example of ideologies of work present in children’s TV Victoria Tedder

Tags building work, embodiment, manual labour, media, skill, work identity

Categories: Projects

September 11, 2009 The Remembrance to a Lost Work: Nostalgia, Labour and the Visual Tim Strangleman

Tags image of worker, nostalgia, photography, production, transport, work identity

Categories: Projects

August 12, 2009 Work Identity and Worklessness Lynne Pettinger

Tags recession, sociology not economics, unemployment, work identity

Categories: Thoughts

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