Work

The activity, lead by Professor Gill Kirton and Dr William Monteith, started in 2019 and finished in August 2022, when  Dr William Monteith became the Director of the IHSS Research Programme Rethinking Work.

Colleagues across the Faculty were researching work in the global economy of the 21^st century from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, using a range of methodologies and covering multiple topics. The overall focus was on ‘Work at the Margins’, including topics such as precarious work, job quality and decent work, boundaries between work and non-work, regulation and governance of work and workers, inequalities at work, modern slavery, stakeholder and trade union responses to marginal work, the post-wage economy.

Activities included a half-day Faculty-wide workshop of short presentations on the theme of ‘Work at the Margins’, a screening of the film ‘Workers’ by Ben Rogaly (Sussex University) and Jay Gearing, followed by a panel discussion and three focused working group meetings of colleagues interested in any or all of the following activities:

1. formulating a cross-School large grant application,
2. developing small research projects involving two or more Schools,
3. holding future cross-School events to disseminate our collective research on work,
4. developing a strategy for public dissemination of our collective research on work using social media, websites, and blogs.