Hired

Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain

Non-Fiction, History & Politics, British History, 20th Century Britain, Politics | Paperback Published on: 07/02/2019
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Synopsis

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019
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The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019
TheTimes 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

  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • ISBN: 9781786490162
  • Number of pages: 304
  • Weight: 263g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm