{"product_id":"hired-six-months-undercover-in-low-wage-britain-1","title":"James Bloodworth: Hired [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e Times\u003c\/i\u003e Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An extraordinary and unsettling journey into the way modern Britons work. It is George Orwell's \u003ci\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London \u003c\/i\u003efor the gig-economy age' MATTHEW D'ANCONA, author of \u003ci\u003ePost-Truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloodworth, James","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46473452618067,"sku":"9781786490162","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/bloodworth-james-james-bloodworth-hired-2019-paperback-9781786490162-1145882880.jpg?v=1741558655","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/hired-six-months-undercover-in-low-wage-britain-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}