[Media-watch] New at ColdType

[Tony Sutton]

NEW AT COLDTYPE.NET

Always Happy. Never Sad
By Polly Toynbee
The fifth in our series of excerpts from great books

Could you live on the minimum wage? The Guardian's Polly Toynbee took up the
challenge; living on one of the worst council housing estates in Britain and
taking whatever was on offer at the job centre. What she discovered shocked
her. In telesales and cake factories, as a hospital porter and as a school
dinner lady, she worked at a breakneck pace for cut-rate wages, alongside
working mothers and struggling retirees. The service sector in Britain is
now administered by seedy agencies, offering no prospects, no screening and
no commitment. And, perhaps most damning of all, Toynbee found that, despite
the optimism of Prime Minister Tony Blair¹s New Deal, the poorly-paid
effectively earn less than they did 30 years ago. In ColdType¹s excerpt from
Hard Work, the author takes a job working as a dinner lady, preparing and
serving lunches to children in a school canteen . . .

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LATER THIS WEEK ­ More Updates from regular columunists John Pilger, George
Monbiot, Norman Solomon, Michael I. Niman, Antonia Zerbisias, Danny
Schechter.

Read JOHN PILGER at http://www.coldtype.net/pilger.html

Read GEORGE MONBIOT at http://www.coldtype.net/London.html

Read NORMAN SOLOMON at http://www.coldtype.net/mediabeat.html

Read MICHAEL I. NIMAN at http://www.coldtype.net/Grip.html

Read ANTONIA ZERBISIAS at http://www.coldtype.net/broad.html

Read DANNY SCHECHTER at http://www.coldtype.net/danny.html

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COMING SOON

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Hard To Starboard, in which top South African journalist Denis Beckett finds
himself in a part of South Africa where a white man without a car is an
optical illusion.

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