Is This Working?
06 March 2025
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
From the sex worker to the lorry driver, the hedge fund manager to the veteran-turned-teacher, this is the story of work in twenty-first-century Britain, as told by workers themselves.
Charlie Colenutt is a writer and historian who, since 2021 has been interviewing people from all walks of life across the United Kingdom. Together they form a polyphony of stories from every...
Details
06 March 2025
400 pages
9781035015092
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Colenutt’s intense and revealing interviews capture the raw voices of people talking honestly about work, high and low, fulfilling and crushing. Read this, as each one opens a hidden window on the way we live now.Polly Toynbee