Below the Breadline
Subtitle: Living on the Minimum Wage
Publisher: Profile Books Limited
Published: October 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781861974716
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Poverty; Sociology - General; Sociology; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Public Policy - Economic Policy; GREAT BRITAIN_SOCIAL CONDITIONS; MINIMUM WAGE; Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: I'm sitting in the upstairs room of the job centre at the Oval, and it's crowded.
Description: "In the tradition of George Orwell's Down & Out in London & Paris, this book shows what it is like to try to live on [pound]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? Below the Breadline, in entertaining prose, sympathetic portraits and with a telling eye for detail reveals all - including the extraordinary differences across the length of Britain."--Jacket.