Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage

Abrams, Fran

ISBN 10: 186197471X / ISBN 13: 9781861974716

Verlag: Profile Books Ltd, 2002

Beschreibung

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M0186197471X-G

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage
• Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 186197471X
• ISBN-13: 9781861974716
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Fran Abrams is a journalist who writes for the Guardian, BBC Radio 4, Independent and numerous other papers.