Casual work is still the root cause of destitution | Letters

Noel Whiteside looks at the history of ‘casualism’, Frank Field calls for a crash anti-poverty programme, Alison Fuller and Laura Unwin want investment in adult training, and Mike Cobb says nurses’ student debt should be paid offMatthew Taylor’s report to be published this week addresses problems of modern employment (Low-paid workers need better job satisfaction, No 10 review will say, 7 July). But these problems are not as “modern” as most commentators suppo