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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. Britain has the lowest social spending and the highest poverty in Europe. As the income gap between top and bottom has widened, so social mobility has shuddered to a halt. The low-paid are caught in an economic double bind that victimises them and shames the rest of us.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9780747564157
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Subject Area
Social Work, Economic Sociology
Author
Polly Toynbee
Publication Name
Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain
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Paperback
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English
Publication Year
2003
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Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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129mm
Item Weight
209g

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Polly Toynbee
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United Kingdom

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