Reddit reviews Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
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Hired is an excellent book from a journo who went "undercover" in some shitty minimum wage (and less) jobs. That is, unless you're actually living the nightmare in which case you won't need to read it.
The book for anyone wondering is called "Hired" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hired-Months-Undercover-Low-Wage-Britain/dp/1786490145/ref=la_B01EI2AH7G_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533052280&sr=1-1 and it's amazing. One of the best things I've read this year
hahaah! it's actually available on AmazonUK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hired-Months-Undercover-Low-Wage-Britain/dp/1786490145
Excerpts:
>“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass declared 161 years ago. Last week saw that truth on broad display as Amazon, facing growing political and organizing pressure, announced it was setting a minimum wage of $15 an hour for its US workforce and also raising wages in England.
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>The company’s declaration followed months of mounting bad publicity for Amazon. US workers have been speaking out in greater numbers about the punishing pace of work, high injury rates, and a plantation mentality on the warehouse floor. A British journalist went undercover at Amazon and wrote a book describing workers forced to pee in bottles and extraordinarily high rates of depression. (Ironically, Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain is selling remarkably well on amazon.com.)
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His book is available now. Oddly not many people seem to have bought it from this book dealer.