If we truly cared about poor people, low-wage Britain wouldn’t exist | James Bloodworth

After six months spent in low-paid work, I think the biggest problem is the public mindset that allows exploitation to occurIn early 2016 I set out to spend six months working in low-paid jobs around the country. At that time, there was a great deal of optimism swilling around about Britain’s record employment levels. Yet trends such as the precipitous growth of zero-hours contracts after the 2008 recession suggested that much of the work being created was not on a par with what had existe