Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain (Main)
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James Bloodworth (Author)
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019
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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 expose, 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 TBC
About the Author
James Bloodworth is the former editor of Left Foot Forward, the influential political website. He is a fortnightly columnist for the International Business Times and regularly contributes to the Independent, Guardian, New Statesman and Wall Street Journal.
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- Contributor: James Bloodworth
- Imprint: Atlantic Books
- ISBN13: 9781786490162
- Number of Pages: 304
- Packaged Dimensions: 130x197x23mm
- Packaged Weight: 285
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Release Date: 2019-02-07
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: James Bloodworth is the former editor of Left Foot Forward, the influential political website. He is a fortnightly columnist for the International Business Times and regularly contributes to the Independent, Guardian, New Statesman and Wall Street Journal.
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