Photo by the author: A working class childhood (c. 1959) BY NANCY HARDING I grew up in the working-class coal mining communities of the South Wales Valleys in the UK. My parents left school at 14, my father became a coal miner and my mother a very frustrated housewife. Cleanliness was god in the Valleys, […]

As a photographer from a middle-class family in India, treating any work with respect is dignity. I cannot emphasise this enough. I did several photography projects in India between 2013 and 2017 – weddings, commercials, documentaries, and corporate projects. As a result, I met and interacted with various classes of people. It was a revelation […]

As persons in an increasingly precarious world of work, we perform a variety of labour at the workplace, home, and beyond – intellectual, physical, mental, emotional, and political. For many of us, these different kinds of labour cannot be performed in isolation. These merge and overlap with the experience of – our everyday lives, our […]