Subject: Minimum wage (Keywords)

Fran Abrams 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 delicate prose, sympathetic portraits and a telling eye for detail reveals all.

Britain has the lowest social spending and the highest poverty in Europe. As the income gap between top and bottom has widened, social mobility has shuddered to a halt. Is this the end of social progress? Toynbee shows that unless we acknowledge the poor and radically improve their prospects, it ...

As wealth inequality skyrockets and trade union power declines, the living wage movement has become ever more urgent for public policymakers, academics, and - most importantly - those workers whose wages hover close to the breadline. A real living wage in any part of the world is rarely its minim...

This work presents the new Precariat - the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. Guy Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass w...