Full name: Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britian

Author: Polly Toynbee Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780747564157 0747564159 1902488512

Could you live on the minimum wage? Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee took up the challenge, living in one of the worst council estates in Britain and taking whatever was on offer at the job centre. What she discovered shocked even her. In telesales and cake factories, as a hospital porter or a dinner-lady, she worked at breakneck pace for cut-rate wages, alongside working mothers and struggling retirees. The service sector is now administered by seedy agencies offering no prospects, no screening and no commitment. Most damning of all, Toynbee found that despite the optimism of Tony Blair's New Deal, the poorly paid effectively earn less than they did thirty years ago. Similar books: Old School by Bill O'Reilly How To Be Right by James O'Brien 50 Facts That Should Change the World by Jessica Williams Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges American Carnage by Tim Alberta This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren The Common Good by Robert B. Reich $2.00 a Day by Kathryn Edin Them by Benjamin E. Sasse This Land Is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant Twilight of the Elites by Christopher Hayes Back to Work by Bill Clinton The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones Plunder and Deceit by Mark R. Levin Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos Killing the Deep State by Jerome R. Corsi Liars, Leakers, and Liberals by Jeanine Pirro Hillary the Other Woman by Dolly Kyle