0:00:03my research field is work and employment
0:00:07and i'm very interested in all lit contemporary changes the strict carry
0:00:12in this work and employment
0:00:14i say work and implement because i'm including
0:00:18unpaid work as well as paid work in this
0:00:21and work is so important people's lives people spend the large part of that direct
0:00:27work and they was suspended very large parts of the lives work
0:00:32and
0:00:33work is very important that right and say what's occupation they have a profession they
0:00:38have really shaped to they think they are
0:00:40and it's extremely significant to their wellbeing
0:00:44and then you think that the arrow
0:00:46norms changes that occurred recently in the global were out of work
0:00:51we seen digitization the introduction of the internet too many fields of life
0:00:57and we've seen outsourcing of work to remote locations
0:01:03seen an expansion of the service sector
0:01:05and the transfer velocity manufacturing work from the global move to the global south
0:01:12we see that expansion of
0:01:14migrant labour coming from all over the well to
0:01:17metropolitan countries
0:01:19and also the big shifts and how work is conducted whether it's done paid or
0:01:25unpaid
0:01:26on the question of my late or in a recent research
0:01:30project that i did on fruit manufacturing embraced and
0:01:33it was significant that were
0:01:35fifty seven
0:01:37nationalities in one factory
0:01:39in rural england if you look that you'll forty years ago
0:01:43then much as being not ten nationalities mostly from
0:01:47the former colonies that these were really from all of the world so that's a
0:01:51very significant change as well
0:01:55and
0:01:56as long term interest of mine has being
0:01:59the way in which the same task all the same
0:02:02work might be done in many different ways in different historical periods
0:02:08and in different countries so
0:02:10what might be paid or unpaid
0:02:12it might be done informally or formally
0:02:15it might be done in the market and private sector or it might be done
0:02:19in the public sector
0:02:20or in the not for profit sector
0:02:23and
0:02:23the boundaries between all those different fields all i changing all the time and what
0:02:30shift across them and if you think of something like at work you can see
0:02:35how
0:02:35can i work might be done
0:02:37and paid in the home and some people might not think of it is work
0:02:42in other
0:02:44places all times it can be done
0:02:46as paid work i the provided by the state all three the market and then
0:02:51people doing it definitely do think a bit as work because it's paid
0:02:56and the i think it's extremely important for policy
0:03:00and for governments and all
0:03:03and social sciences to have a clear awareness
0:03:06actually shifting boundaries particularly in present time
0:03:10where a lot of work is being
0:03:14moved from paperwork back to unpaid work
0:03:19my current research is on what some calling consumption work which is
0:03:24the work that consumers increasingly have to do
0:03:28in order to use something that they or tool to buy at in the first
0:03:32place a if you think people now and do a lot of research
0:03:37online you noticed by train tickets all
0:03:40holidays in the past the used to be travel agency did that is
0:03:44paid work we might think of canada where the work of assembling the products that
0:03:50we biasi care has to be done that i the by ourselves so we have
0:03:54to pay somebody else to do it
0:03:56so what i'm going to be looking that's in this research project
0:04:00is a three fields the installation of
0:04:05broadband in the hum
0:04:07and impression everybody's got a nightmare stories to tell about how they got that broadband
0:04:12instilled whatever in other countries itself from parts of the fabric of the building
0:04:18then i'm going to be looking for preparation work
0:04:22in france in britain
0:04:24and in taiwan where circumstances a very different we have an enormous amount to
0:04:30ready prepared food available to us and arguably people do less cooking than they used
0:04:35to whereas in france data as much as the edit it and they don't happen
0:04:40in recent much ready made food
0:04:42and then referred area that i'm going to look at these recycling the domestic recycling
0:04:47of rubbish which is something that's really grown over the last ten years old or
0:04:52in other countries with be going on the much longer
0:04:55and the unpaid work
0:04:57that people do in the hum often children of
0:05:01separating out
0:05:03plastics and you'll got parts and newspapers and both roles and
0:05:08putting them up for collection
0:05:10and often collection of course they go into the big business and when they get
0:05:15sent to other parts of the world and all recycled as new boxes and bottles
0:05:22sound very fortunate enjoying this research that i've got a large grant from the european
0:05:27research council but i'm also very fortunate that i mean that sociology department at essex
0:05:32where my colleagues filtering
0:05:37projects on similar highlight areas of work of gender of consumption of advertising and we'll
0:05:46and learn a lot from each other and it's a very exciting research environment to
0:05:51be working