58: Working undercover in Amazon warehouse - James Bloodworth

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Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest, James Bloodworth, is an intrepid journalist who went undercover to work in an Amazon warehouse and expose the torrid conditions within. His acclaimed book Hired details his journey back into the working classes from which he came for six months, also working as an Uber driver and a care worker in impoverished parts of the UK for the book. James Bloodworth Links: Hired book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hired-Months-Undercover-Low-Wage-Britain/dp/1786490161 https://twitter.com/j_bloodworth https://www.instagram.com/james.bloodworth Andrew Gold Links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://patreon.com/andrewgold http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What should we have for dinner Trevor? We've got a few bits in the fridge.
0:03.0	Beats me, Connie.
0:04.0	Hang on, I'll use my phone.
0:08.0	How about a nice prawn curry?
0:10.0	Whoa, that's amazing, Connie. You got a chef living inside your phone
0:14.8	Not quite Trev at our goss dot coo. UK. We have all the latest must-habs including the new google
0:21.6	Pixel with Gemini AI.
0:23.4	There's more yum to Argos. Subject to availability delivery fee may apply.
0:28.2	Can the phone what the dishes too, Connie?
0:30.1	So, Carl, what big Hollywood star did you get to promote our two-for-one cinema ticket offer?
0:35.0	I got Mr. Hollywood himself.
0:37.0	Nice to meet you.
0:38.0	Carl, that's Paul Hollywood, The Baker.
0:40.0	So Mr. Hollywood, what roles have you done before?
0:42.8	I quite like a ceded bat and I'm partial to a briosh.
0:46.5	Sergei, send them back to Ireland.
0:48.3	I'm from the whirral.
0:49.6	Just make it simple!
0:50.8	With two for one cinema tickets every Tuesday or Wednesday when you take
0:54.0	out a qualifying product so compare the market. One membership of your participating
0:57.7	cinema is two standard tickets only cheapest free, season sees apply.
1:00.3	I remember I wrote in my notebook on the very first day I was there that the
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