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From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 2, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Hard Work: Life in

Low Pay Britain

by Polly Toynbee

Bloomsbury, pounds 6.99, 242 pp

pounds 6.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

"I'VE BEEN POOR and I've been rich," said the American singer Bessie Smith. "Rich is better." Hard Work is an elaboration of that very obvious truth.

Polly Toynbee, a star columnist for The Guardian newspaper, wanted to find out what it was like to be poor, so she decided to try and live on the minimum wage for a number of weeks. She moved out from her own comfortable home in Clapham and in to a vacant flat in "The White House," one of London's most miserable ...

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