The Book

Is This Working? The Jobs We Do, Told by the People Who Do Them (Picador, 2025)

Old Newsletters and Essays

• the magic porridge pot
• on concrete additives
• Reflections on the Revolution in Job Applications
• Ungigging
• what happened in 2008?
• Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor
• frack frack boom
• canteen: closed
• sheer cloudy vagueness
• why do I have to do so much paperwork?
• in defence of food security
• the future of UK farming
• Royal Mail and Amazon
• the work of William Morris
• Roblox: work and play in the metaverse
• banter in the workplace
• pripiski policing: the dynamics of police corruption in the UK
• chickenomics