Hard At Work

Our project.

The interviews on this website were conducted as part of a class taught by Gerard Sasges of the NUS Department of Southeast Asian Studies. In the class, students interview people working in Singapore about their jobs. And while the explicit topic of their interviews is work, implicitly we hope to use it as a way into the issues that shape Singapore today. The first interviews were conducted in 2014, and the project is ongoing. As a result, the project not only provides a unique window on Singapore society, but also documents important changes in that society over time, from the impact of the Covid pandemic to the changes of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (“Industry 4.0”).