Fed up with zero-hours contracts and temporary work? Here’s what to do | Steven Parfitt

On their own casual workers have no power. But organised campaigns for better working conditions, with union backing, can succeed – as seen in the USOurs is an age of casual labour. More than a fifth of workers in Britain, 7.1 million people, scrape by on temporary, casual or zero-hours contracts, or in what employers often euphemistically describe as “self-employment”. That number has risen by two million people in the past 10 years. It covers everyone from cleaners to carers,