Polly Toynbee: Hard Work | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780747564157 | Hard Work | Life in Low-Pay Britain | Polly Toynbee | Taschenbuch

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'A passionately reasoned and compelling account of the avoidable cruelties still embedded in the underside of British life - by a writer who has literally worn the clothes, lived in the flats and done the jobs of the poor. Every member of the cabinet should be required to read it, apologise and then act' Will Hutton A frank and breathtaking book, this is journalist and broadcaster Polly Toynbee's account of her courageous intention to live and work on the minimum wage. The 'decent living' wage set by the Council of Europe is set at £7.39. The minimum wage in Britain is currently £4.10 per hour. And often, people are working for less, their voices unheard, their faces unnoticed. The low-paid are caught in an economic double bind that victimises them and shames the rest of us. Toynbee took whatever jobs she could find, often offered for less than the official minimum wage. Living on an estate in Clapham, she started from scratch and found that if she were truly unemployed, she would not even be able to afford a new job, and that faced with starvation, it's impossible not to sink into debt. In this powerful and compelling book, Polly Toynbee journeys to the inside of Britain today and uncovers that world which is invisible to most. This is a damning portrait of social justice in Britain.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	242 S.
ISBN-13:	9780747564157
ISBN-10:	0747564159
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Paperback
Autor:	Toynbee, Polly
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	197 x 130 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Polly Toynbee
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.02.2003
Gewicht:	0,181 kg