“James Bloodworth is a journalist and author of Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, which was longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2019.” Anthropologi

“James Bloodworth is a journalist and author of Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, which was longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2019.” Anthropologizing (my neologism) the poor of your own country is an elitist move. Even the upper-middles have some contact with lower-middles. The title makes it sound like he’s donning a pith helmet and diving deep in the dark heart of Essex. The article goes nowhere. There are no concrete recommendations and few if any citations from the (not surprisingly) very large body of existing research on the topic. He did note he briefly worked in an Amazon warehouse. Give the man an OBE...