{"product_id":"below-the-breadline-living-on-the-minimum-wage-fran-abrams","title":"Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage - Fran Abrams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA poignant and brilliant account of trying to live in Britain today on the minimum wage - £4.10 an hour Fran Abrams was commissioned by the Guardian to work as a night cleaner at the Savoy - living on (or as it turned out - below) the minimum wage. A short version of that experience appeared in the paper in January 2002. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Profile, she spent a month living on (in fact below) the minimum wage in South Yorkshire working in a pickle factory and then another month in Scotland working as a care assistant. In the tradition of George Orwell's Down \u0026amp; Out in London \u0026amp; Paris, this book shows what it is like to try to live on £4.10 an hour. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere 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 entertaining prose, sympathetic portraits and a telling eye for detail reveals all - including the extraordinary differences across the length of Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57290652385660,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/btb-fa-01.jpg?v=1786701252","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/below-the-breadline-living-on-the-minimum-wage-fran-abrams","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}