No Way To Make A Living » workspace http://nowaytomakealiving.net is a sociological space about work, generating discussion and exchange on what work, paid or unpaid, is like in today’s world Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:23:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Noticing Work Spaces: Sound Without Vision http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/656 http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/656#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:41:19 +0000 Lynne Pettinger http://nowaytomakealiving.net/?p=656 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.

repairing boats, Lynne Pettinger

They were so busy in that rusty corrugated iron shed. I could hear radio 1, and creeking, scraping and whining machinery. They were laughing. I think they mended boats; I have no understanding of what that would involve.

We don’t always notice other people’s work spaces; some are public and yet hidden, but sounds call our attention to work activity and give us clues as to what people are doing even when they cannot be seen.

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