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Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain

Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain

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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. James Bloodworth goes undercover to investigate how working life has become a waking nightmare.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 07 February 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books


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 exposé, 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

Weight: 272g
Dimension: 157 x 152 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786490162
Edition number: Main

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