# Hired

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- Book: [Hired](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-bloodworth/hired) ([Hired.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-bloodworth/hired.md))
- Authors: [James Bloodworth](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-bloodworth)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-17-8649-016-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2019-02-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________ 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 exposé, 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