Acknowledgments This report would not have been written without those who volunteered to be part of our fieldwork. They provided us with tremendous knowledge and made us aware of many socioeconomic issues in Trondheim. Among the organizations that helped us, we would like to thank: Innovation Norway, NTNU Business School, Work Work, and the Adult Education Center in Trondheim. We would also like to thank all the citizens we interviewed: Marianne Ingeborg Karlsen, Kristin Susanne Karlsen, Karl Elmer Sagmo, Tyler Stewart, Espen Meisfjord, Sondre Yggeseth, Jostein Storøy and Sigrund Stendal. Finally, we would like to thank those who supervised and helped us improve our work: David Smith (the class’s instructor), Marcin Sliwa (the class’s research assistant), and Sabrine Scherzer (Phd candidate at NTNU).