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Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

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BBC Two - Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy, Episode 1

20 volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector.

20 volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. In this episode, they do our dirty work - cleaning hotel rooms and sorting through recycling.

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of the fastest growing jobs in Britain's low-wage sector.

In this episode, they are doing our dirty work - cleaning hotel rooms after a busy party weekend and then sorting through our recycling. While the workers battle to meet performance targets, Anita Rani looks at the bigger picture - can businesses cope with a rise in minimum wage, are we Brits afraid of hard graft and is worker representation a thing of the past?

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Volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector.

Anita Rani explores the reality of work at the lowest end of the pay scale as 20 volunteers test their skills against some of the fastest growing jobs in Britain's low-wage sector.

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