Hired : Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain

Author: Bloodworth, James (Author)

United Kingdom, Great Britain

Published on 7 February 2019 by ATLANTIC BOOKS.

Paperback / softback | 304 pages, TBC
157 x 152 x 23 | 292g

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For 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