Hired Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________ The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019 The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018 For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of short-term jobs with no security and little future. In this essential expos�, James Bloodworth goes undercover to investigate how working life has become a waking nightmare. From the Orwellian reach of an Amazon warehouse to the trials of a care worker, Hired is a clear-eyed analysis of a divided nation and a riveting dispatch from the very frontline of low-wage Britain. 'An extraordinary and unsettling journey into the way modern Britons work. It is George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London for the gig-economy age' MATTHEW D'ANCONA, author of Post-Truth

ISBN:	9781786490162
Publisher:	Atlantic Books
Imprint:	Atlantic Books
Published date:	07 Feb 2019
DEWEY:	331.210941
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xx, 284
Weight:	266g
Height:	157mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	23mm

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