My day job is to design and deliver classes on work and organisation and I enjoy this a great deal. In my eyes work is fascinating because so much of human life, meaning, identity and status is connected to work. We often spend more time “at work” than we do with our families, we may share more of ourselves with colleagues than we do our friends. Our position in the socio-economic hierarchy is produced and re-produced within work and in relation, it’s a key determinant of life chances (in fair and often unfair ways).
These issues and much more are some of those I seek to explore in classes. That said, it’s both enjoyable and important to try to take the discussion out of classrooms and onto more mainstream forums, as I sought to do in a BBC interview that contributed to this article. I hope to be able to do more external engagement in the future because “preaching to the converted” is unlikely to build a critical mass towards a better, brighter future for working people.
See link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56377442
Here is a snippet:
Dr Martin James 