Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019
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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 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
Hired : Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
Description
Table of Contents
Preface - p.1
Part I: RUGELEY
Chapter 1 - p.11
Chapter 2 - p.28
Chapter 3 - p.42
Chapter 4 - p.54
Chapter 5 - p.64
Part II: BLACKPOOL
Chapter 6 - p.79
Chapter 7 - p.91
Chapter 8 - p.106
Chapter 9 - p.121
Chapter 10 - p.132
Part III: SOUTH WALES VALLEYS
Chapter 11 - p.143
Chapter 12 - p.153
Chapter 13 - p.165
Chapter 14 - p.180
Chapter 15 - p.187
Part IV: LONDON
Chapter 16 - p.203
Chapter 17 - p.211
Chapter 18 - p.219
Chapter 19 - p.228
Chapter 20 - p.243
Epilogue - p.258
Notes - p.266
Index - p.272
Author Description
James Bloodworth is the former editor of Left Foot Forward, the influential political website. He is a fortnightly columnist for the International Business Times and regularly contributes to the Independent, Guardian, New Statesman and Wall Street Journal.