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Low-paid hit worst by job insecurity

Job insecurity is just as stressful as unemployment, and, contrary to the popular view, has hit the working class far harder than professionals, according to a Cambridge University academic.

Not only have those at the bottom of the pile been forced to put up with a widening pay gap, they have also suffered the "double blow" of extreme anxiety over their employment prospects.

In a study to be published in the new year, Brendan Burchell of the Cambridge Faculty of Social and Political Sciences warns of the dangerous effects of this "polarisation" of the labour market on society. He has calculated that manual workers are 60 per cent more likely to move into insecure jobs than professionals. The ...

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