my research field is work and employment
and i'm very interested in all lit contemporary changes the strict carry
in this work and employment
i say work and implement because i'm including
unpaid work as well as paid work in this
and work is so important people's lives people spend the large part of that direct
work and they was suspended very large parts of the lives work
and
work is very important that right and say what's occupation they have a profession they
have really shaped to they think they are
and it's extremely significant to their wellbeing
and then you think that the arrow
norms changes that occurred recently in the global were out of work
we seen digitization the introduction of the internet too many fields of life
and we've seen outsourcing of work to remote locations
seen an expansion of the service sector
and the transfer velocity manufacturing work from the global move to the global south
we see that expansion of
migrant labour coming from all over the well to
metropolitan countries
and also the big shifts and how work is conducted whether it's done paid or
unpaid
on the question of my late or in a recent research
project that i did on fruit manufacturing embraced and
it was significant that were
fifty seven
nationalities in one factory
in rural england if you look that you'll forty years ago
then much as being not ten nationalities mostly from
the former colonies that these were really from all of the world so that's a
very significant change as well
and
as long term interest of mine has being
the way in which the same task all the same
work might be done in many different ways in different historical periods
and in different countries so
what might be paid or unpaid
it might be done informally or formally
it might be done in the market and private sector or it might be done
in the public sector
or in the not for profit sector
and
the boundaries between all those different fields all i changing all the time and what
shift across them and if you think of something like at work you can see
how
can i work might be done
and paid in the home and some people might not think of it is work
in other
places all times it can be done
as paid work i the provided by the state all three the market and then
people doing it definitely do think a bit as work because it's paid
and the i think it's extremely important for policy
and for governments and all
and social sciences to have a clear awareness
actually shifting boundaries particularly in present time
where a lot of work is being
moved from paperwork back to unpaid work
my current research is on what some calling consumption work which is
the work that consumers increasingly have to do
in order to use something that they or tool to buy at in the first
place a if you think people now and do a lot of research
online you noticed by train tickets all
holidays in the past the used to be travel agency did that is
paid work we might think of canada where the work of assembling the products that
we biasi care has to be done that i the by ourselves so we have
to pay somebody else to do it
so what i'm going to be looking that's in this research project
is a three fields the installation of
broadband in the hum
and impression everybody's got a nightmare stories to tell about how they got that broadband
instilled whatever in other countries itself from parts of the fabric of the building
then i'm going to be looking for preparation work
in france in britain
and in taiwan where circumstances a very different we have an enormous amount to
ready prepared food available to us and arguably people do less cooking than they used
to whereas in france data as much as the edit it and they don't happen
in recent much ready made food
and then referred area that i'm going to look at these recycling the domestic recycling
of rubbish which is something that's really grown over the last ten years old or
in other countries with be going on the much longer
and the unpaid work
that people do in the hum often children of
separating out
plastics and you'll got parts and newspapers and both roles and
putting them up for collection
and often collection of course they go into the big business and when they get
sent to other parts of the world and all recycled as new boxes and bottles
sound very fortunate enjoying this research that i've got a large grant from the european
research council but i'm also very fortunate that i mean that sociology department at essex
where my colleagues filtering
projects on similar highlight areas of work of gender of consumption of advertising and we'll
and learn a lot from each other and it's a very exciting research environment to
be working