Published 2003 (ISBN 1 902488 51 2) Price £9.95
This pamphlet is the theoretical and statistical basis for Polly’s book “Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain” (Bloomsbury, January 2003). It builds on work previously carried out by the Institute on equality and low pay and it goes on to raise uncomfortable questions about how unsatisfied we should be as a society, when the ‘wealth’ of the nation is not easily accessible to those on low incomes.