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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Behind the Headlines | The Culture of Work
Description: Monday, 22 November 2021, 7 – 8:30pm
‘Work is a necessary evil’, wrote the American author Mark Twain. But as we emerge from the pandemic, during which working life for many changed dramatically, do we need to reconsider our attitude to the culture of work? As we transition to remote and flexible working arrangements, is there a nostalgia for the collective rotas and routines of industrial capitalism? How do we value ideas of employment and labour within contemporary society, and how are conventional historical definitions, such as ‘the working class’ or ‘white collar occupations’, changing with the times? In this Behind the Headlines, our panel of exper...