Daywork

Research on work hired by the day

Daywork is an independent publisher covering short-term hired work as a research subject: how it has been organised in different periods, how statistical agencies and sociologists have tried to count it, and where the evidence remains thin or contested.

Published from Brazil. Written in the third person, about published research. No accounts from readers are collected or published.

Library

  • What a corner survey can count

    Field methods

    The 2004 national day labour survey directed by Abel Valenzuela Jr. reached thousands of workers at open-air hiring sites. Its design also decided, in advance, which workers could appear in the results.

  • A category defined by what it is not

    Measurement

    Arne Kalleberg and colleagues grouped on-call work, agency temping and independent contracting under one heading. The grouping produced comparable numbers and buried differences that matter.

  • Task time before clock time

    History

    E. P. Thompson argued that work organised by task gave way to work organised by the clock. Later historians reopened the question using sources Thompson did not use.

Editorial standards

  • Every study is named

    Findings are attributed to the researchers who published them, with the year and the publication. Claims that cannot be traced to a named source are not published.

  • Nothing is assumed about the reader

    Daywork writes about research in the third person. It does not describe the reader's work, income, schedule or circumstances, does not ask the reader to recognise a situation, and does not offer guidance addressed to an individual. Articles report what researchers observed in their samples, and nothing beyond that.

  • Limits are printed next to findings

    Where a study's sampling, measurement or interpretation has been criticised in the literature, the criticism appears in the same article — usually in the same paragraph as the finding it qualifies.

  • No accounts from readers

    Daywork does not publish testimonials, reviews, success stories or before-and-after accounts, and does not solicit them. Nothing on this site represents an individual experience submitted by a reader or a customer.

What Daywork is not

  • Not therapy, counselling, career coaching or any form of professional advisory service.
  • Not diagnosis or treatment of any condition, and not a substitute for a qualified professional.
  • Not personalised guidance. Nothing published here is tailored to any individual's situation.
  • Not a promise of any result. No outcome is claimed, implied or forecast for anyone who reads it.
  • Not a crisis service. Emergencies require local emergency services, not a publisher.
  • Not intended for anyone under 18 years of age.

Common questions

What does Daywork publish?
Essays about published research on short-term and day-hired work — its history, the categories used to classify it, and the methods used to measure it. Articles are written by the editorial team, not by contributors writing about themselves.
How is the library accessed?
Articles on this site are open and require no account, no registration and no payment. Where a paid publication is offered separately, its terms are stated on the page where it is offered, not here.
What is the refund window?
Seven days from the date of purchase for anything bought directly from Daywork. The refund policy sets out how to request one and how long the reversal takes.
Does Daywork answer individual questions?
No. The support address handles access problems, billing questions and corrections. It does not provide consultations, assessments, recommendations or advice about any individual's work or finances.
Does Daywork publish reader stories?
No. No testimonials, endorsements, reviews or personal accounts are published, quoted or collected — including anonymised ones.
What happens to personal data?
Only what is needed to answer a message or process a purchase, kept for defined periods and never sold. Details, legal bases and how to exercise data rights are in the privacy policy.

Support

One address handles everything: access, billing, corrections and data requests.

support@daywork.pro

Replies are sent on business days, Brazil time. There is no telephone line, contact form or live chat. See contact for what to include in a message.