Poverty and insecurity

"The book achieves its aims of providing a thorough insight into life at the foot of the contemporary labour market in a way that is sensitive and empathetic...This is a good quality publication produced by a research team who between them have done much to increase understanding of the realities of working-class life." --David M. Smith, Canterbury Christ Church University "Based on unique qualitative, life-history research with a 'hard-to-reach group' of younger and older people, men and women, the book shows how poverty and insecurity have now become the defining features of working life for many. An illuminating read" - London School of Economics Review of Books