James Bloodworth (journalist)

James Bloodworth is an English journalist. A former member of the Trotskyist group Alliance for Workers' Liberty, he edited the left-wing blog Left Foot Forward from 2013 until 2016. Bloodworth writes a weekly column for the International Business Times and wrote for The Spectator's Coffee House blog from 2013 to 2015. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and The Wall Street Journal.

He is the author of The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Biteback, 2016).. He is also the author of the forthcoming book Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, to be published by Atlantic Books in March 2018. Bloodworth spent six months working in low-paid and minimum-wage jobs including as a care worker in Blackpool, an Uber driver and in the UK packaging warehouse of Amazon, as research for the book.

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