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Leeds is the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, it is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. The Working Hours Podcast documents the city’s experiences through CoVid, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and ongoing resource wars, the ongoing removal of the welfare state and the accelerating ecological emergency.
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Why is Working Hours?
Working Hours exists because I want to create a depository of first-hand knowledge and experience about labour and employment in my home city throughout this pivotal decade in the human story. At this crucial moment for our species and our shared biosphere, what are we doing here in Leeds and why?
I want to demonstrate the breadth and depth of working roles that are available to all of us outside of our media’s narrow obsession with only ever showing us cops, spies, factories, shops and media workers. Whatever people do, someone is getting paid to do that thing. I hope to demonstrate that reality.
My goal is to record at least an hour of experience and opinion on my guests’ work, and I aim to create a total of one thousand interviews with Loiners over this whole decade. My interviews are designed to allow my guests to think and reflect on their own work – hopefully in new ways.
It’s not scary, but it is fun. Some of my guests have even described their Working Hours interview experience as “work therapy”.
If you work or live in Leeds or you are originally from Leeds and now work elsewhere (we get everywhere) and you fancy the idea of talking to me about your work and potentially thinking about what you do in a whole new way then get in touch. I always, always need guests and as long as you are over 18 and you meet my definition of a Loiner then I’d love to have you on the show – you don’t even have to be in paid employment!
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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel
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