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Below The Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage

A poignant and brilliant account of trying to live in Britain today on the minimum wage — �4.10 an hour Fran Abrams was commissioned by the Guardian to work as a night cleaner at the Savoy — living on (or as it turned out — below) the minimum wage. A short version of that experience appeared in the paper in January 2002. For Profile, she spent a month living on (in fact below) the minimum wage in South Yorkshire working in a pickle factory and then another month in Scotland working as a care assistant. In the tradition of George Orwell's Down & Out in London & Paris, this book shows what it is like to try to live on �4.10 an hour. Where can you live? What can you afford to eat? Or do in the evening? What are the jobs — and the workmates and bosses like? This book, in entertaining prose, sympathetic portraits and a telling eye for detail reveals all — including the extraordinary differences across the length of Britain.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781861974716
  • Genres
  • politics
  • Release date
  • 2002